Cardiff council says it has insufficient grid capacity at the Lamby Way depot to charge all of its vehiclesCardiff council is considering getting 41 vehicles for £9.7m to help it improve recycling in the city.
Caro Wild told an environmental scrutiny meeting that the council would have liked to have made the vehicles electric, according to the"We have got the biggest electric RCV fleet in Wales but… because of the grid capacity at Lamby Way, the availability of the vehicles, the price of them, it is just not possible to do that number at this stage," he said.
Some of the new vehicles will be purchased and some will be leased to allow the council to move away from diesel engines when conditions allow.
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