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M&S goes one greener with electric truck PDF Print E-mail
Written by The Guardian   
Monday, 05 February 2007
Marks & Spencer has stepped up a gear in the battle to be the greenest retailer by becoming the first chain to order the world's biggest zero-emission delivery truck.

The retailer plans to deploy its first 7.5 tonne battery-powered truck for food deliveries in London this summer. It hopes to buy more of the £60,000 vehicles as it phases out diesel trucks and seeks to become carbon neutral. The order is the first by a major retailer for Tyne & Wear company Smith Electric Vehicles, a subsidiary of Aim-listed Tanfield Group.

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