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Our Fleet

Climate Action feature story

Our fleet

We can make the most positive environmental impact by decarbonising our fleet. We recognise that this is challenging, but by taking action and identifying the technologies and enablers we need to support our decarbonisation transformation, we can take a lead in Ireland.

Light commercial vehicles

In 2020, we committed to increasing the number of electric vehicles (EVs) in our light commercial fleet to 2,000 by 2022.  We currently have 1,010 EVs, 155 e-trikes and Ireland’s first 7.5 tonne electric truck in our fleet.  However, it has become apparent that we will not achieve our ambition of 2,000 EVs by 2022 due to the pandemic, as well as widespread automotive production and delivery delays. We are reviewing our transport strategy to accommodate for these supply chain challenges as well as the availability of alternative fuel options and dynamic route planning. Therefore, we have decided to update our commitment to 50% of the fleet to run on alternative fuel sources to diesel by 2025. In 2021, 28% of our fleet ran on alternative fuel sources and we will be reporting on this percentage in future Reports.

Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs)

In 2021 we became the first Irish logistics company to join EV100. In conjunction with our membership of the Alliance for Logistics Innovation through Collaboration in Europe (ALICE), this means we are well placed to be at the forefront of the developing technology of clean energy generation for vehicles.  This collaboration supports the development of our strategies for the decarbonisation of our HGVs.

Fleet efficiency

While electrification of our fleet is critical to our decarbonisation strategy, our drivers also have a key role to play in accelerating our progress.
We continued with our successful eco-driver training programme throughout 2021 to improve fleet efficiency and limit fuel consumption in our diesel vehicles. Despite limitations on vehicle sharing due to COVID-19, 62% of our drivers have now undertaken this training. The training focuses on fuel efficiency and safety. Special attention is given to highlighting where energy losses occur and how our drivers can take appropriate actions to avoid them.
A combination of eco-driver training, our modern fleet and telemetrics installed in our vehicles helps us to understand more about our fuel usage. This has resulted in a 5.7% increase in fleet efficiency in 2021 and we are delighted to report that we avoided €1.5m in fuel costs.

At a Glance 

In 2021, An Post’s entire fleet:
  • Travelled more kilometres (3,891,744km more than 2020)
  • Used less litres of fuel (732,115 litres less compared to 2020)
  • Increased efficiency by 5.7% compared to 2020
  • Avoided €1.5m in fuel costs
    • € 1m in efficiencies
    • € 0.5m in fuel savings due to the fleet transfer to EVs
To help maintain focus on improving fleet efficiency, we are introducing a new commitment in 2022 to improve fleet efficiency metrics by 3% per annum to 2025.
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