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Oleorecycling
Toulouse
Oleorecycling, a French leader in the collection of used edible oils, decided to reduce its logistics costs in the city center by using VUF bikes to collect waste from restaurants in downtown Toulouse. In the past, for the same volume transported, Oleorecycling achieved around 24,000 km per year in a 3.5 Tonne light vehicle. Currently, this same vehicle only travels 3,400 km per year to deliver to a downtown last mile delivery logistic center (“the VUF room”), and, from there, the VUF does the rest by delivering to the city center.
With a daily reduction of 25 kilograms of CO₂ emissions, along with a 20% decrease in working time and a 12% reduction in logistic costs, this solution showcases significant environmental and operational benefits, leading to more efficient and sustainable practices.
VUF is a brand of cargo bikes whose objective is to decarbonize the business of professionals operating in town centres or on closed sites with motorized vehicles. These are three-wheeled bicycles equipped with electric assistance, robust, compact and 100% modular, specific to the transport of large loads and volumes (up to 250kg for a volume of 1.7m3) in urban areas, industrial and all-terrain. They are equipped with boxes, bins, and / or trailers. This high level of modularity allows us to meet a multitude of uses: transport of equipment, collection of waste, cleanliness of roads, management of green spaces, maintenance, delivery of packages/meals/lessons, etc. Twenty times lighter and six times more compact than a light commercial vehicle (LCV) for equivalent quantities of loads, volumes or people transported. The VUF is a response to urban decongestion.
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