With around 6,300 vehicles, Swiss Post operates Europe’s largest fleet of electric scooters.

Sustainable mobility

Last petrol scooter taken out of service

At the end of 2016, Swiss Post took its last petrol-powered scooter out of service. This means that all of the roughly 6,300 scooters used by Swiss Post’s mail carriers are now electrically powered, and exclusively with “naturemade star”-certified green power from Switzerland.

On 7 December 2016, the last petrol scooter was taken out of service in Stein am Rhein. The conversion of the Swiss Post scooter fleet from petrol to electricity is now complete. Good news for the environment: this reduces Swiss Post’s CO₂ emissions by around 4,600 tonnes per year, or 733 kilograms of CO₂ per vehicle – a significant step. Around 6,300 yellow electrical two- and three-wheeled vehicles are now used to deliver letters and parcels in Switzerland. Swiss Post therefore operates the largest fleet of its kind in Europe.

Environmentally friendly, efficient, quiet

In 2016, Swiss Post still had around 70 petrol scooters on the road. Since the start of 2017, all scooters at Swiss Post are now battery powered. That makes a big difference: an electric scooter requires around six times less energy than a petrol scooter. The fleet of Swiss Post scooters now consists largely of the well-known model Kyburz DXP (around 5,770 scooters), which weighs about 320 kilograms and covers an average of 5,000 kilometres per year. With a trailer attached, the three-wheeler can transport up to three times more than a two-wheeled vehicle, which means that the mail carriers can serve more households on their – environmentally friendly and quiet – rounds.