Gordon Buist, production director at Chivas, told BBC Scotland: "We're always trying to look at new ways to go on our journey to net-zero and one of our key emissions is transport.In Scotland, domestic transportation is the area generating the most greenhouse gas emissions which contribute to climate change.It was responsible for 24% of total emissions in the latest Scottish government figures covering 2020.
While barriers exist for electrifying long-distance haulage, companies are increasingly examining the option for shorter journeys. He explained: "What needs to happen is the infrastructure needed to support these vehicles out on the road, to extend their range, has to happen."We've taken the big, bold step in putting this vehicle on the road and it's quite limited in the range we can do with it because there's nothing to recharge it out on the road."The HGV will haul around 24 tonnes of full whisky casks on the first leg of its journey, returning to the bottling plant with empty casks.
Scottish Forestry will introduce similar vehicles later in the year to run between a saw mill at Lockerbie and a national distribution centre a few miles away at Hangingshaws.
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