Gebrüder Weiss gets creative with last-mile delivery in Croatia

Electric tricycles used for private homes and companies on islands of Rab and Lošinj
By Adam Hill August 14, 2023 Read time: 2 mins
Who ordered an eco-delivery? (image: Gebrüder Weiss)

Logistics firm Gebrüder Weiss has started using electric tricycles for deliveries to private homes and companies on the Croatian islands of Rab and Lošinj.

It says the low-noise electric vehicles are easy to manoeuvre, making them ideal for deliveries in small towns and tourist resorts during holiday season.

"It is important to maintain the islands’ authenticity and uniqueness," says Barbara Bujačić, country manager Croatia at Gebrüder Weiss.

"By using our electric tricycles to provide delivery services we help the island oases retain their charming character. And our customers will receive the goods they ordered online in an eco-friendly manner."

The trike can transport total weights of 500kg and cover 50km on one battery charge.

Gebrüder Weiss Croatia has also recently started to use electric vans for deliveries to final customers in Zagreb, with the vehicles covering 170km on one charge, allowing up to 35 eco-friendly deliveries per day.

Batteries are charged via the company’s own photovoltaic system recently installed at its main location near Zagreb. Solar panels installed on the logistics facility's roof boast an annual total peak performance of 500 kilowatts and contribute to saving about 107 tonnes of CO2 per year, Gebrüder Weiss says.

It also uses electric trucks in the Greater Vienna metropolitan area, Austria, and the company has used hydrogen trucks in Switzerland since 2021.

More electric and hydrogen trucks are scheduled for Germany next year.

Air Quality & Weather Systems

Related Content

  • FirstGroup invests in new ‘low carbon’ buses
    May 4, 2016
    UK and US transport operator FirstGroup has placed an order worth US$102 million (£70 million) for 305 new vehicles, 87 per cent of which will be Department for Transport approved ‘low carbon certified’. First Bus estimates this will save 4 million kg of CO2 per year. The 2016/17 investment will bring the company’s fleet of low carbon certified vehicles to around 1,000, believed to be one of the largest in the UK, saving in total an estimated 14.5 million kg of CO2 annually.
    Read More
  • Portuguese toll operator cuts energy costs
    April 17, 2012
    Portuguese motorway toll operator Brisa Auto Estradas de Portugal says it is saving over 10 per cent of its electricity costs – worth over US$430,000 – as a result of an energy efficiency plan which was launched in 2010. Electricity consumption accounts for 54 per cent of Brisa’s total energy expenditure, half of which is for the lighting systems of the motorway network.
    Read More
  • New services and equipment helps cities tackle air quality issues
    September 19, 2017
    With poor urban air quality shortening lives and fines being imposed for breaching pollution limits, authorities are seeking ways to clean up their cities. Poor air quality is topping the agenda for city authorities across the globe. In the UK, for example, a report from the Royal Colleges of Physicians and of Paediatrics and Child Health, concluded that poor outdoor air quality shortens the lives of around 40,000 people a year – principally by undermining the health of people with heart and/or lung prob
    Read More
  • Lagos to get mass transit system
    February 5, 2013
    Lagos, Nigeria, is about to get a mass transit system with a difference, which the manufacturer says will play its part in reducing congestion and air pollution in the city. For the first time in the country’s history of Nigeria, a cable car company, Ropeways Transport, is set to launch a cable car mass urban transit system in the nation’s commercial capital. Under the terms of a thirty-year franchise agreement between Ropeways Transport, the Lagos Metropolitan Area Transport Authority (LAMATA) and the Lag
    Read More

Highlighted Content