Brussels Airport says it’s accelerating the electrification of its fleet, whereas additionally encouraging various technique of transport, in step with its objective of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050.
For a while, Brussels Airport has been engaged on its inexperienced mobility credentials for passengers and workers, with initiatives starting from electrical buses to CNG automobiles and electrical charging stations.
Since 2018, the Brussels Airport fleet has included 30 electrical buses, in addition to automobiles operating on CNG. The airport can also be testing, with its companions, dealing with gear which runs on electrical energy and hydrogen.
“Our new mobility coverage matches in with our sustainability coverage and our ambition to turn into a internet zero carbon organisation, that’s, bringing our use of fossil fuels all the way down to zero and, consequently, of reducing our carbon emissions to zero as nicely,” mentioned Brussels Airport CEO, Arnaud Feist.
“A method of doing so is to adapt our firm automobile fleet, the purpose being to cut back the variety of firm automobiles by selling a mix of working from dwelling, biking and public transport for all our workers, together with those that don’t drive an organization automobile, but additionally to vary our automobile fleet.
“That implies that, if we use a automobile, we need to accomplish that with out emitting carbon. That’s the reason, from January, 2022, we’ll solely be buying electrical firm automobiles with the potential of bike/automobile and public transport/automobile mixtures.”
Staff of Brussels Airport can go for a number of options to the automobile, which could be mixed or not, comparable to public transport, bicycles, shared options (shared automobiles, shared bicycles, et cetera) or a money various. The choice has additionally been taken to change to electrical automobiles to switch the corporate automobile fleet.
Whereas a variety of these automobiles are already electrical or hybrid, from 2022 onwards, all new firm automobiles will likely be totally electrical, with a goal of reaching an all-electric fleet by the top of 2025.
In line with new Belgian laws, firms will likely be obliged to change to electrical automobiles for his or her new fleet from 2026 onwards. In concrete phrases, first automobile orders will likely be positioned in January, 2022 and will likely be accompanied by dwelling charging options.
Brussels Airport will even set up further quick charging stations in its automobile park.
The entire electrification of the fleet, which will likely be efficient by the top of 2025, will save virtually 1,000 tonnes of CO2 per 12 months, maintains the airport.
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