For two years, IKEA Austria has been supplying most of its customers in urban areas electrically and therefore emission-free. From now on, IKEA Austria is expanding its emission-free delivery with hydrogen-powered vehicles, taking a further step towards making all deliveries throughout Austria emission-free by 2025. Austria is the first IKEA store in the world to use hydrogen trucks.

The emission of greenhouse gases along supply chains is a problem with serious impacts on the climate – which is why IKEA Austria is taking further measures to be able to carry out all deliveries emission-free by 2025. “By introducing the hydrogen trucks – as the first IKEA store in the world – we have taken a big step in implementing environmentally friendly processes in Austria. As a pioneer in the area of ​​sustainable logistics, we would like to show that a transformation to an emission-free delivery system is already possible today ,” says Alpaslan Deliloglu , CEO and Chief Sustainability Officer at IKEA Austria.

While IKEA Austria has been supplying its customers in urban areas with EV (Electric Vehicle) trucks for two years, the introduction of the hydrogen trucks, which are now on Austria’s roads, will expand the range of emission-free delivery. “Our EV trucks are perfect for carrying out multi-stop routes in urban areas. Since we also want to supply customers in more remote areas of Austria with zero emissions, we had to find a solution with vehicles that provide a longer range: This is exactly what hydrogen fuel cell technology offers. And that without having to compromise on the payload weight ,” explains Melanie Eltzner , Customer Fulfillment Manager at IKEA Austria.