Associated British Ports (ABP) chose the five VW ID.3 electric cars with a range of 300 miles to ensure the pilots can travel around the 145 square miles that is covered by them.<\/p>\n
Stretching from Goole to Grimsby and covering inland ports such as Flixborough, the pilots cover a million miles a year on the road as they travel from port to port.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Humber Marine Pilots are undertaking a lot of travel around our ports, and they needed a dependable electric vehicles,\u201d said Simon Bird, regional director of ABP Humber<\/p>\n
\u201cOur ambition long term is to ensure we reduce emissions, and the Humber ports are leading the way in supporting sustainability and investing in green equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carbon neutral<\/strong><\/p>\n The all-electric ID.3 is the first Volkswagen produced and delivered with a carbon neutral balance. It has lightning-fast recharging and can recharge a range of up to approximately 180 miles in 30 minutes.<\/p>\n Multiple electric vehicle (EV) charging points have been installed across the Humber ports as part of a \u00a3150,000 investment at Hull Port House, Immingham Dock Office and the Grimsby Marine Control Centre. Further EV points will be rolled out longer term.<\/p>\n As the trial of using electric vehicles continues, it is hoped another ten electric cars will join the fleet soon, with a further ten being added in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The UK\u2019s Humber Marine Pilots are trialling a fleet of electric vehicles to reduce carbon footprint<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":2373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[28,502,519,518,520,23,9,521],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-initiatives-greenport","tag-abp","tag-abp-humber","tag-electric-cars","tag-humber-marine-pilots","tag-inland-ports","tag-port-equipment","tag-ports","tag-volkswagen"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions\/2374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}