„Can't wait for our entire urban and delivery fleet to become 100% electric.”
Helmut Schweighofer, CEO DB Schenker Region Europe
Green urban logistics
Like every other sector, logistics has to become zero-emission within the coming decades. While it’s still a difficult task to attain this goal for long distance road transport, there are already serial electric vehicle solutions for collection and last mile delivery.
eCanter: Quick but not dirty
DB Schenker is running the largest eCanter fleet in the world. But there is more to discover. Find out what Helmut Schweighofer (CEO DB Schenker Region Europe) and Cyrille Bonjean (Head of Land Transport Region Europe) have to say about green last mile delivery.
Many solutions, one goal
The key to sustainability is sometimes not one singular technology, but rather a combination of many different, complementing approaches, all aiming at carbon neutral transportation. While artificial intelligence, IoT and other digital technologies are helping to get more and more out of every drop of fuel that is being used, electric mobility can offer up to 85 Percent CO2 reduction per kilometer on the last mile, depending on the source of electricity. Today at DB Schenker, electric collection and delivery vehicles are used in over 70 European cities, putting DB Schenker into a green leadership position within the general cargo sector even today. The electric fleet includes eCanter, electric cargo bikes, eActros, eVolvo and other electric vehicles. For 2030, the company has set the target to turn a significant portion of the urban collection and delivery fleet electric.
Newcomer in the arena: The Volta Zero
To further complement and accelerate the transformation of the delivery fleet to zero-emission, DB Schenker is exploring all plausible options in addition to the existing ones, which are being upscaled as quickly as possible. One more interesting future technological solutions that is under closer investigation is the Volta Zero, a 100% electric delivery vehicle invented in Sweden, which is now in the prototyping phase. While other manufacturers basically exchanged the powertrain and re-modeled existing vehicles, the Volta was constructed as an electric truck from the very beginning, displaying some quite disprutive features as a steering wheel that is located in the middle of the cabin instead of on one of the sides.
Exploring the new Volta Zero
Christian Drenthen, Member of the Board of Management for Land Transport at DB Schenker, shares his impressions and thoughts about the electric Volta Zero delivery truck.
