United Kingdom
EAV P1, a British-built electrically assisted “cargo bike”, was developed by the Electric Assisted Vehicles company of Upper Heyford, Oxfordshire. The first 10 of these innovative green machines are going into service with the DPDgroup parcel delivery and courier firm (an arm of the French Post Office, La Poste).
These new delivery vehicles and their intrepid drivers/riders will be trialed in London, Newbury, and York, as well as at DPD business units in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Portugal, and France.
The benefits are obvious. There’s no diesel or petrol pollution from the “bio-mechanical” mechanism, so it is a zero-emission at source vehicle and is ideally suited to the increasing number of cities declaring themselves carbon neutral or, like Bristol, diesel-free.
Innovation themes: British-built electrically assisted “Cargo bike”, Innovative green machines, “Bio-mechanical” mechanism, Road towards carbon-neutral cities
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