The two new E-tech D Wides, with Harsh HS14T 4x2 skip loader equipment, will be working in Ashcourt Group鈥檚 waste management operations in Hull, delivering and collecting skips from trade and domestic customers throughout the area.
Ashcourt has been assured that they have the capacity to complete a full day鈥檚 work on a single charge.
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鈥檚 Waste Recycling Facility in Hull, which has been fitted with dedicated DC and AC charging points to service the company鈥檚 fleet of electric vehicles.
The Ashcourt Group recently made the switch to Renault Trucks across most of its divisions.
Marketing manager Luke Stocks said: 鈥淭he 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. Seeing 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.鈥�
He added: 鈥淭he electric vehicles suit this type of work as they鈥檙e making regular, smaller journeys to and from our waste recycling centre, and the truck鈥檚 manoeuvrability will help our drivers to navigate smaller streets and tighter access areas.鈥�
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