DAF electric and hybrid trucks go on trial
By Jim Gibbins - 1st April 2019
The Netherlands - DAF Trucks NV of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, has placed electric and plug-in hybrid trucks in service with Simon Loos and Peter Appel Transport. Both companies supply Dutch supermarket chain, Albert Heijn. These deliveries mark the start of long-term field tests involving three fully electric trucks and two plug-in hybrid trucks — with the latter marking a first in Europe.
Albert Heijn has over 1,000 supermarkets throughout Holland, Belgium and Germany. In 2014 it signed up to the ‘Green Deal for Zero Emission City Logistics’; an initiative bringing together shippers, carriers, technicians and authorities to jointly conduct research into how to achieve maximum progress towards zero-emission deliveries in urban areas by 2025. TNO – the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research is also involved in the trial.
