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    Sysco Expands Electric Tractor Fleet in Canada

    Sept. 10, 2024
    According to the food distributor, these vehicles will serve over 1,500 customers, including restaurants, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions. This addition is part of Sysco’s broader sustainability effort to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 27.5% by 2030.
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    Food distributor Sysco has introduced eight heavy-duty electric tractors to its fleet in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

    According to the company, these vehicles will serve over 1,500 customers, including restaurants, healthcare facilities, and educational institutions. This addition is part of Sysco’s broader sustainability effort to reduce scope 1 and 2 emissions by 27.5% by 2030.

    Sysco Canada played host to a celebration event at its Victoria distribution center. The event came during National Trucking Week in Canada, which honors the nation’s 400,000 freight drivers and is looking at the future impacts of fleet electrification.

    The 18-wheelers will charged at Sysco's Langford yard overnight and able to depart in the mornings with a 90% charge, according to reports.

    “One component of our climate goal is electrifying a portion of our fleet, and our partnership with the government of Canada, the government of British Columbia and BC Hydro is key to helping us achieve this,” said Sysco’s Chief Administrative Officer Neil Russell. “Electric tractors produce zero tailpipe emissions which is good for the environment and important for our customers who want to do business with a responsible foodservice distributor.”

    In total, Texas-based Sysco now has more than 130 heavy-duty electric tractors globally across the U.S., Canada, the U.K., and Sweden. The company operates 340 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations.

     

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    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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