Sainsbury’s add 50 eco friendly electric vans to its fleet

Sainsbury’s, the supermarket giant, has always been renowned for sourcing local and national products over international mass marketed items. They have been at the forefront of introducing organic and free range food, as well as providing encouraging leaflets and recipe ideas to their customers. Sainsbury’s have long been known to adapt and change their policies in order to ‘do their bit’ at reducing carbon emissions and to help the local and national economy.

Its eco friendly image has taken an extra turn now as it reveals that they have added 50 electric LGVs to its online home-delivery service. Sainsbury’s have assured customers, however, that they have not needed to change their distribution times or routes, even though electric vehicles need to be returned to base more frequently for recharging.

They have said that they have been able to locate a number of stores with suitable catchment areas where there will be no disruption to delivery patterns.

Their 50 Smith Edison vans mean Sainsbury’s has the largest fleet of electrical vans at 68.

Sainsbury’s has been testing electrical vehicles since 2006 in its Kensington depot, where the electrical LGV training has taken place.