Rental company Europcar has taken on 25 MG4 EVs for use by its delivery and collection service.
The cars have been deployed across Europcar’s branch network to be used exclusively as ‘runners’ supporting the delivery and collection of vehicles for customers.
The number of dedicated electric runner vehicles on Europcar’s fleet has doubled since March 2023, and having targeted 25% of delivery and collection miles being electric, the company says that in February this year, 33% of these miles were in EVs.
Europcar UK operations director Kevin Rand said: “The Europcar business has taken a number of steps in the last 12 months to reduce our impact on the environment, from applying connected technology to almost 100% of our fleet to know when vehicles are ready to collect, to achieving 77% EV usage amongst our own company car drivers.
“Significantly increasing the number of electric runners on our fleet means our own drivers have become real EV champions, fully engaged in our goal to reduce emissions.”
