New electric engineering and maintenance vehicles deployed by easyJet will make a saving of 54 tonnes of CO2e per year, the budget carrier has announced.

The vehicles will be based at several of the carrier’s major bases across the UK and Europe.

They replace traditional petrol and diesel-powered vehicles for engineering and maintenance teams across its operations.

The new fleet of 36 vans has been rolled out at easyJet’s engineering bases including Berlin, Luton, Bristol and Liverpool airport.

The airline will roll out the EVs at other engineering bases during next year when easyJet expects to hit 80% of bases using fully electric maintenance vans.

Jane Ashton, director of sustainability at easyJet, said: “After a successful, small-scale trial at Berlin Airport last year, which saw the conversion of a number of maintenance vehicles to electric our immediate step was to expand on a much bigger scale across our UK and European bases.

“This small but critical move will help us further reduce the impact of our ground operations and we continue to try and find new ways to do this every day through the integration of operational efficiencies including fleet renewal both for aircraft and maintenance vehicles as well as fleet optimisation through various new technologies.”

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