Asda has converted its fleet of delivery vehicles to be fully electric at three stores across the UK this week.
The new vans will serve an area of more than 345,000 households combined and look set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save over 400,000kg of CO2 per year.
Customers at Asda stores in Gilliangham Pier, Old Kent Road and Sheffield Chaucer will have their online orders fulfilled by the vehicles.
The supermarket chain said it will roll out the electric vehicles to a further two stores in Cardiff Bay and Leith by the end of the year.
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It comes as Asda looks to completely remove diesel vehicles from its home delivery fleet by 2028, as well as halve its total greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
It also hopes to become a net-zero carbon business by 2040.
Asda senior vice president of ecommerce Simon Gregg said: “Using electric rather than diesel delivery vehicles will lead to huge reductions in our emissions and go a long way to achieve our goals of halving our greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and becoming carbon net zero by 2040.”
