Thursday 19 April 2018

Sainsbury’s trials electric bike deliveries in London

Sainsbury’s is trialling what it says is the UK’s first grocery delivery service by electric cargo bike.

Starting this week, a fleet of five zero-emission bikes will join vans setting off from the Streatham Common store to deliver up to 100 orders each every day.

The purpose-built bikes will be provided by e-cargobikes.com and have enough capacity to carry several customers' orders at a time while producing zero emissions and no noise pollution.

The supermarket wants to test if electric bikes are a more efficient way of getting groceries to customers living in busy cities - if successful, the trial could be rolled out to further areas across the UK.

Clodagh Moriarty, Director of Online at Sainsbury’s, said: "We're delighted to be the first supermarket to trial grocery deliveries by electric cargo bikes."