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Ford Pro and Deutsche Post DHL Group recently signed a memorandum of understanding to accelerate the deployment of electric trucks used in logistics operations around the world.
This came within the framework of the two companies’ efforts to provide green services to their customers, or what is known as sustainable development services.
Ford Pro will commit to supplying more than 2,000 all-electric vans to Deutsche Post DHL Group, which they will deploy to DHL centers worldwide by the end of 2023, reinforcing its leading position in the use of electric vans for worldwide mail delivery.
The memorandum of understanding signed between the two companies includes a full range of solutions to operate the electric truck fleet, including access to E-Telematics programs connected to Ford Pro, and charging solutions in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency, as part of the two organizations’ joint goals in reducing carbon emissions. As Ford aims in its strategic plan to completely switch to clean electric energy, based on its European version, and to secure logistics services and suppliers to achieve this goal by 2035, while this strategy will be circulated to the rest of the versions around the world by 2050.
For its part, Deutsche Post DHL Group, the world’s leading logistics company, is committed to implementing environmentally friendly logistics operations to enhance climate protection, and will invest 7 billion euros in the current contract with Ford to activate clean, carbon-neutral logistics.
Deutsche Post DHL Group targets to reduce carbon emissions by 60 percent from e-vehicles used in pick-up and delivery by 2030, powered by Ford’s Pro range of electric vehicles including the all-new E-Transit.