Gatwick airport has switched its fleet of diesel vehicles to run on Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO), in a move which it says will save 950 tonnes of carbon emissions per year.
The London airport had around 300 vehicles including fire engines, airside operations vehicles and snow ploughs which were being powered by diesel.
These account for around 85 per cent of Gatwick’s fleet, and all of them will now be powered by HVO until they are retired and replaced by electric vehicles.
The airport said that the move would reduce its Scope 1 (those directly produced / controlled by a company) vehicle emissions by 90 per cent…
