Tesco has strengthened its position as the leading supermarket when it comes to the roll-out of electric home delivery vans by unveiling its 1,000th electric van.
The van will go into service at the supermarket’s Cardiff Extra store, making it the third store in Wales to have a fully electric fleet. The store runs 20 home delivery vans, making close to 5,000 deliveries each week.
Since Tesco introduced its first EV home delivery van in 2020 in Greater London, the electric vehicles powered by clean green energy have replaced close to 30 million diesel delivery miles.
The retailer is driving a rapid expansion of its EV fleet, nearly doubling the number of EV vans it operates in the UK from 720 in March 2025, to 1,250 by Spring 2026, helping to improve air quality in urban areas and reducing emissions.
As part of its ambition to become carbon neutral across its operations by 2035, Tesco has committed to operating a fully electric home delivery fleet in the UK by 2030.
By moving the whole UK delivery fleet to clean electric power, it would be equivalent to taking 22,000 cars off the road each year.
Ashwin Prasad, Tesco UK CEO said: “The delivery of our 1,000th EV home delivery van to our Cardiff Extra store is an important step in our journey towards a fully electric home delivery fleet across the UK by 2030.
“Making this change will reduce our carbon emissions as a business, improve the air quality for the communities we serve in Cardiff, and help us reach our commitment to be carbon neutral in our own operations by 2035.”
