Climate change: Tesco using electric lorries in 'UK first'

The UK's largest supermarket chain said it was the "Start of us learning how to do electric trucks" as all new UK HGVs need to be zero-emission by 2040.Latest official figures shows more than a quarter of UK emissions come from transport - with almost 5% from HGVs."The challenge for this is huge," said John Stevenson of Tesco. With a range of about 100 miles, he said the current generation of electric lorries was not the solution for long-distance journeys. Tesco has already started using electric vehicles for its home delivery service and has pledged that it will be "Fully electrified by 2028"."Now we will try and follow the same journey with the HGV fleet," added Mr Stevenson. Tesco's move into using electric delivery trucks has been called a "Small step" in the "Revolution" of decarbonising commercial freight deliveries. The head of Cardiff University's electric vehicle centre of excellence said the average daily trip for a UK lorry was 250 miles and the UK government's electric truck target was achievable with improved charging infrastructure.

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