Sustainable mobility

Environmentally friendly vehicles

For letter deliveries, Swiss Post is focusing on low-emission electric scooters.

In 2013, Swiss Post covered 22 million kilometres with 5,000 electric scooters and 129 biogas vehicles, delivering letters and parcels without using any fossil fuels. Swiss Post is continually modernizing its fleet to increase its energy efficiency and reduce environmental pollution. These investments are economically sustainable: “Although electric scooters are more expensive to buy than petrol scooters, they pay off in the long term because of their bigger load capacity and lower operating costs”, says Andreas Haruksteiner, Head of Mobility Development at Mobility Solutions Ltd. Swiss Post also tested twelve electric delivery vans on the roads in 2013. And in a pilot project at the Geneva logistics centre, a hybrid truck has been in use since July 2013 – with initial results indicating fuel savings of 20 percent.

In the passenger transport sector, Swiss Post is also focusing on environmentally friendly mobility solutions. The Postbus fleet is being upgraded on an ongoing basis with buses that make use of the most advanced engine and emissions technology, continually improving their environmental impact. Since 2010, PostBus has reduced NO_X emissions per kilometre by 6 percent and particulate matter emissions (PM10) by 30 percent. In total, PostBus uses five low-emission fuel cell buses and almost twenty hybrid buses in its public transport network.

Swiss Post continued its training programme in environmentally friendly eco-driving over the course of 2013. As part of the programme, its effectiveness was monitored by eco-coaches.

With eShare, Swiss Post is also giving companies and individuals the opportunity to use environmentally friendly electric vehicles in a car sharing programme. In the self-hire bicycle rental scheme PubliBike, run jointly by PostBus, SBB and Rent a Bike, bicycles and e-bikes are now available for hire at over 100 locations. With this mobility solution, PostBus is providing access to the “last mile” in cities and urban areas.