The low emission vehicle trial is expected to start this week in Hockley, near Birmingham and will then be rolled out in Derby, Leeds, Edinburgh and Bristol

The energy supplier will install chargers on Royal Mail Group sites in the South East of England

Royal Mail is to start trials of nine all-electric vans in London this month. It has unveiled the commercial vehicles produced by Oxfordshire-based carmaker Arrival, which recently opened a new factory in Banbury. The postal operator will begin the trials with six-tonne, 3.5-tonne and 7.5-tonne vans. They will be based at Mount Pleasant Mail Centre […]

Royal Mail has signed an agreement to buy 100 electric delivery vans. Peugeot will provide the L2 Electric vans, which will be used by postmen and women on their delivery rounds. They zero-emission vans will go into service from December this year at delivery offices across the UK and will be supported by a rollout […]

The number of companies reporting environmental and social information nearly doubled between 2012 and 2014, suggests the latest Sustainability Yearbook. In 2014, 15.3% of firms put key sustainability details in their annual reports, rising from 8.8% in 2012. This statistic in the Sustainability Index released today is based on 1,813 companies assessed for the Dow Jones Sustainability […]

Royal Mail will be responsible for delivering smart meters to British Gas engineers across the UK for the next five years. The British postal service announced the deal yesterday as it celebrated winning back the overall mail contract of the gas company. The smart meter contract covers the crucial first years of the rollout for […]

The Royal Mail’s head of sustainability believes that the government target of 50% of carbon cuts by 2015 might be difficult to achieve, but he is certain that 40% can be hit. Martin Blake was speaking at the CRC Energy Efficiency Summit in London this week. “CRC is something that we would gladly apply because […]