Ingka Group (IKEA) Case Study: Co-Creating Zero Emission Deliveries
IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) is no stranger to issues around supply and volume of commercial electric vehicles. With a target to achieve zero emission deliveries globally by 2025, there is no time to wait around for the solutions to come to them. Instead, IKEA is co-creating fit-for-purpose vehicles themselves.
Developing a vehicle suited to their needs required strong collaboration, which they found from OEMs Renault and MAN. The result is a 20m3 box body truck enabling the company to load its vans with full pallets specific to IKEA’s needs, with a range capable of reaching most of their customers in cities from stores or logistics centres. The bespoke design enables them to optimise deliveries and reduce the number of vehicles on the road.
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IKEA seems to be moving in the right direction, not only with their ambitious plans - which would see the company be one of the fastest to achieve zero emission deliveries - but also choosing to share their technology to benefit everyone. The company has already successfully tested their new vehicles in France, now the next challenge will be scaling up production to cover their worldwide delivery network.
This is a great step forward, but there is still a lot of work to be done. We must ensure that these new vehicles do not just cause in an increase in electricity demand on old fossil fuel power stations. If coal plants and other high emission sources of electricity continue to be the main power supply, then the problem with our emissions and our polluted air will continue. We know that True Clean Energy such as Concentrated Solar Power, wind and geothermal are brilliant sources of clean electricity. Let us solve the root causes of this problem so vehicles can be powered in a truly clean way!
