To help reduce the environmental impact of its waste management operations in the Hull area, the Ashcourt Group UK has taken delivery of its first two fully electric 18 tonne Renault Trucks E-Tech D Wide skip loaders.<\/p>\n
The two new E-tech D Wides, with Harsh HS14T 4\u00d72 skip loader equipment, will be working in Ashcourt Group\u2019s waste management operations in Hull, delivering and collecting skips from trade and domestic customers throughout the area and have the capacity to complete a full day\u2019s work on a single charge.<\/p>\n
Ultra-quiet and 100% electric, the E-Tech D Wides are powered by 265 kWh E-Tech traction batteries with four battery packs of 66kW each located in the wheelbase, providing a maximum torque of 286Nm continuous and 530Nm peak. Both new electric vehicles will be charged at Ashcourt Group\u2019s Waste Recycling Facility in Hull, which has been fitted with dedicated DC and AC charging points to service the company\u2019s fleet of electric vehicles.<\/p>\n
The Ashcourt Group recently made the switch to Renault Trucks across most of its divisions, with the electric vehicles further welcome additions to its ever-expanding Renault Trucks fleet.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Ashcourt Group has committed to reducing its environmental impact and sees the deployment of the new electric refuse trucks as a significant step towards achieving its goals. We chose electric trucks after successfully introducing electric vans and cars into our fleet last year, as well as trialling some electric plant equipment in our operations too,\u201d said Luke Stocks, Ashcourt Group\u2019s Marketing Manager.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing their performance and carbon footprint reductions first hand gave us the momentum to introduce our first two electric trucks into the Group. From our experiences to date, electric vehicles are something we will continue explore and we will monitor the performance of these new trucks very carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n
As Ashcourt Group already enjoyed a strong and established relationship with local Renault Trucks dealer, Thompson Commercials Ltd, partnering with them on their electric journey was the natural next step, as Luke explains: \u201cRenault Trucks\u2019 versatile vehicles have been great for us previously and their introduction of the D range always had our interest. We entered discussions about bringing in an all-electric truck to our fleet and began to learn more about their capabilities. With our experience with Thompsons and Renault Trucks, we trusted them to help us with our electric vehicle journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s waste management services were identified as the optimum starting point for introducing electric trucks because of the nature of journeys, which are shorter and in more urban areas.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough we are taking a calculated approach to introducing electric vehicles as we need to be sure they\u2019re a good fit operationally given the diversity of what we do within the Group, we firmly believe that electric vehicles will continue to play a part in the Group\u2019s future and with careful planning, we\u2019re confident we will grow our EV fleet in years to come,\u201d Luke concludes.<\/p>\n
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