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Edinburgh airport using vegetable oil to power airside vehicles

Air
Rob Gill
6 May 2022

Edinburgh airport has started using vegetable oil to power its airfield vehicles to reduce carbon emissions.

Edinburgh airport has converted some of its ground vehicles to run on vegetable oil

The airport has switched 34 ground vehicles from diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), which is a renewable fuel that eliminates up to 90% of CO2 emissions. HVO can be dropped in as a fuel replacement for existing vehicles that previously ran on diesel.

There are also plans for another 30 vehicles to be switched to HVO in the next few months and the airport has installed an on-site HVO pump.