Local truck team, JAC, is supporting food rescue charity, KiwiHarvest with a 100 percent electric vehicle.

JAC will be gifting the use of its electric truck across Auckland City over the next year. The addition of the JAC truck significantly expands KiwiHarvest’s operations while also reducing its carbon footprint. 

KiwiHarvest chief executive Angela Calver says the JAC electric truck adds capacity for an extra 2,100+ collections, resulting in the equivalent of over 400,000 extra meals distributed into communities each year. 

“As a food rescue organisation KiwiHarvest collects food that is unable to be sold for a variety of reasons eg short-dated, out of spec, surplus and we redistribute this to charities who provide both food and wrap-around support service,” said Calver. “KiwiHarvest feeds 9,500 people every week and we recently celebrated redistributing 14 million kgs of food waste saved.” 

In its first month of supporting KiwiHarvest the EV Truck has exceeded expectations with the chilled truck completing its full daily run of collections and drop offs across Auckland,  arriving back to base having used only 20-25% of the battery across its average distance of 62.2kms a day – operating well within the JAC’s fully-loaded urban range of 200km+.