London laundry company commits £2.5m to roll out e-bike deliveries across the UK

London on-demand laundry and dry-cleaning service Laundryheap has announced it is investing £2.5m to add an additional 200 e-cargo bikes to its fleet.

This expands the company’s ability to provide UK customers with a more eco-friendly delivery service. The investment means Laundryheap will oversee one of the largest e-cargo bike fleets in the UK.

The 200 EAV2Cubed e-cargo bikes, which will be provided by supplier EAV, will power greener pick-ups and drop-ups across Laundryheap’s UK network, which includes Birmingham, Coventry, London, and Manchester.

The roll-out follows a 300 per cent increase in demand for Laundryheap’s services, partly driven by their pandemic offering of a ‘virus wash’ which has carried on into the post-pandemic urban business-scape, as well as their focus on green cleaning techniques.

Founder of Laundryheap, Deayn Dimitrov commented: “We first trialled the EAV2Cubed last year and it’s been a tremendous success for us. The operational efficiency of an eCargo bike in comparison to a van has become really easy to see and work with.

“Our EAV’s can move around cities almost twice as fast as vans and the fact that they make almost no environmental impact whatsoever gives us a much more carbon neutral status as a business. We’re rapidly growing as a business but, as we do this, we want to maintain our sustainability and environmental focus which is essential to the ethos of Laundryheap.”

Leo Bethell, head of business partnerships at EAV, added: “Companies like Laundryheap are perfect partners for us. They have environmental sustainability at the heart of their operations, but they need the highest levels of efficiency and performance to achieve their business objectives.

“Using eCargo bikes in urban environments is much more efficient and effective than vans, combustion engine or electric. We’re lighter and quicker and easier to operate. The fact that Laundryheap has placed such a substantial order shows their commitment to the future of city and town transport and their business which is going from strength to strength.”

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