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HD Regional Haul Tractor-Trailer Electrification
NACFE has released the third in a series of four reports on electric trucks, this one focusing on tractor-trailers performing regional haul deliveries. Weight and range are key elements in deciding which duty cycles are ready to become electrified. The data for the report comes from the "Run on Less - Electric" demonstration run by NACFE in the fall of 2021. 13 different models of battery electric trucks were monitored in operations by real fleets. Four of these vehicles were tractor-trailers, with all of them operating in California.
There are clearly many duty cycles for long haul and heavy haul operations that are not ready for electrification. But there are also many port drayage and urban city delivery applications that are prime opportunities to escape from internal combustion engines and utilized zero emissions alternatives.
Utilities would be wise to start interfacing with some of the key fleets in this arena, such as Penske, Schneider, NFI and others because their energy needs will be very large as charging infrastructure is put in place. Fleets may require substantial new levels of power that take years to install in some places.
HD Regional Haul Tractor-Trailer Electrification
Heavy-duty regional haul battery electric trucks are viable solutions today for improving fleet freight efficiency and helping achieve sustainability goals on short and some medium length routes where daily mileage is 200 miles with one shift return-to-base operations where overnight vehicle dwell time allows for lower cost overnight charging. Other variations of duty cycles also may be very viable where higher rate en route charging can extend vehicle range. As Run on Less – Electric concluded in September 2021, NACFE predicted that 70% of this market segment was electrifiable. Given the more detailed analysis, interviews with industry experts and further research for this report, we now consider this market segment to be 50% electrifiable with lower average daily miles which results in the avoidance of nearly 29.4 million metric tonnes CO2e annually (e equals carbon dioxide equivalent). NACFE estimates the entire CO2e to be eliminated by this segment at an average of 250 miles per day to be 97.8 million metric tonnes.
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