Some of the big fleets of lorries that deliver for leading brands like Lidl, Amazon, Warburtons and the Royal Mail will be switching to more environmentally-friendly fuel from today when the world’s largest public-access renewable biomethane fuelling station opens in Bristol.
The CNG Fuels station will open for business on Thursday, and is so huge it can refuel as many as 80 HGV lorries an hour. Those behind the project say the difference it will make to emissions levels will be as much as cutting 70,000 tonnes of CO2 pumped out by lorries every year - with 90 per cent of haulage emissions cut compared to diesel lorries.
The new biomethane refuelling station opens today, Thursday March 3, at a site in Avonmouth close to some of the big distribution centres and factories that send lorries out onto the M5 and M4 network every day.
