CSR Coups de Coeur Awards - Environment

Finland

Developing a converted e-truck to enable lower pricepoint for subcontractors

Posti has committed to an ambitious goal of operating fossil-free by 2030 – that is, in less than six years. The company already has more than 300 e-vans, over 10 e-trucks, and over 40 biogas trucks. However, the goal also includes the transport partners Posti uses.

New electric trucks are very expensive. That’s why Posti, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, started a joint program of converting an old diesel truck into an electric trucks. That enables cheaper heavy electric vehicles especially for the use of smaller transport companies but also for Posti to use itself.

The truck is the only diesel truck used in Finland that has been converted from diesel to electric and that is in freight transport traffic use. The cost of converting a truck is currently roughly half the price of a new electric truck. This price is expected to fall further. Posti believes in Finland alone, transport companies can potentially convert hundreds of vehicles to electric.