easyJet is rolling out new electric maintenance vehicles across key bases, including London Luton, Bristol, Liverpool and Berlin Brandenburg airports. The new vehicles replace older petrol or diesel vehicles and will reduce emissions by 28 percent.
On Thursday (September 19, 2024), easyJet announced that they are continuing to roll out electric maintenance vehicles across key UK and European bases, including London Luton, Bristol, Liverpool and Berlin Brandenburg airports. These new vehicles are progressively replacing older petrol and diesel-fueled vehicles, and will reduce engineering fleet emissions by 28 percent. This is part of easyJet’s wider fleet renewal program, which will be implemented at all easyJet engineering bases.
In Thursday’s announcement, easyJet’s Director of Sustainability, Jane Ashton, said,
“After a successful, small-scale trial at Berlin Airport last year, which saw the conversion of a number of maintenance vehicles to electric our immediate step was to expand on a much bigger scale across our UK and European bases.
“This small but critical move will help us further reduce the impact of our ground operations and we continue to try and find new ways to do this every day through the integration of operational efficiencies including fleet renewal both for aircraft and maintenance vehicles as well as fleet optimisation through various new technologies.”
To date, a total of 36 electric maintenance vehicles have been deployed across easyJet’s engineering bases. During FY25, the carrier is planning to roll out fully electric vans across other engineering bases, at which time 80 percent of easyJet’s maintenance fleet will be electric. This is just the latest initiative in the airline’s goal of achieving Net Zero emissions, as outlined in their Net Zero roadmap launched two years ago. easyJet has already achieved a 5.0 percent improvement in carbon intensity 2023, versus the baseline year of 2019.
Source: easyJet
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