zero emissions vehicles

Electric truck charging: Can infrastructure keep pace with demand?

Boosted by billions of dollars for electrification, the rapidly advancing market for battery-powered commercial trucks will soon learn whether there is enough juice to begin scaling a transformation from diesel to zero tailpipe emission electric transport.

It doesn’t look good.

“We’ve got to worry about supply and demand, and we’ve got to make sure that all these things come together, and that means like now. The race is on right now,” Britta Gross, managing director of the Carbon Free Mobility...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-truck-charging-can-infrastructure-keep-pace-with-demand

Q&A: Freightera CEO talks economics, operational efficiency, emissions

Freightera's platform provides cost-effective, low-emissions shipping quotes.

Economics and environmental sustainability are often pitted against each other in business — especially when it comes to the movement of freight. But there are several things companies can do today that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and benefit their bottom lines.

FreightWaves asked Eric Beckwitt, founder and CEO of Freightera, headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, about how the company’s freight-quote platform works. Users can compare lanes based on cost, time and emissions.

Abo...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/qa-freightera-ceo-talks-economics-operational-efficiency-emissions

New coalition hopes to create demand drivers for sustainable solutions

The First Movers Coalition aims to provide demand signals for the transition to zero-emissions fuels and technologies.

A new multinational coalition aims to decarbonize “hard-to-abate” sectors such as shipping and provide much-needed demand signals for zero-emissions fuels and technologies.

Launched Thursday at the UN Climate Conference (COP26), the First Movers Coalition is led by the World Economic Forum and John Kerry, U.S. special presidential envoy for climate. 

Amazon, along with major shippers such as A.P. Møller – Maersk, Deutsche Post DHL Group and Yara International, joined the First Movers Coalition as...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/new-coalition-hopes-to-create-demand-drivers-for-sustainable-solutions

Why is reducing emissions in freight so hard?

AskWaves dives into why transportation and freight is such a difficult sector to reduce emissions.

Experts often say greenhouse gas emissions are “hard to abate” in the transportation, freight and supply chain industries. The sector’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels means that substantial investments in infrastructure and technology are necessary to get to net-zero emissions.

Issues that make decarbonizing freight difficult include the:

  • Higher upfront costs for some sustainable solutions, even if the total costs of ownership are lower.
  • Scalability, range, weight and other technological...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/why-is-reducing-emissions-in-freight-so-hard

Workhorse withdraws next-gen mail truck bid protest

Workhorse Group is withdrawing its protest of a multibillion dollar delivery truck contract that the U.S. Postal Service had awarded to Oshkosh Corp. after reconsidering the background of the bid as well as other business opportunities.

“Since I joined the company six weeks ago, we have been conducting a deep and intensive overview of all aspects of our business, including an examination of the history of our USPS bid and subsequent protest filing,” said Workhorse CEO Rick Dauch in a statement...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/workhorse-withdraws-next-gen-mail-truck-bid-protest

Urb-E, Tortoise to partner with AxleHire on zero-emission delivery pilots

Urb-E wants to replace cargo vans with electric bikes pulling collapsible cargo trailers where it makes the most sense: in high-density urban environments.

Already proving the concept can work since its launch in New York City earlier this year, the company on Thursday announced a nationwide pilot with AxleHire.

“We’ve deployed with AxleHire and shown we can do it at scale, and it’s cheaper than gas,” Urb-E co-founder and CEO Charles Jolley told Modern Shipper at this week’s Home Delivery World...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/urb-e-tortoise-to-partner-with-axlehire-on-zero-emission-delivery-pilots

ACT Expo: California subsidies make battery-electric trucks a sweet fleet deal

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Schneider National Inc. liked its experience with one Freightliner eCascadia so much that it has ordered 50 of the battery-electric trucks, the biggest single purchase of the zero-tailpipe-emission tractors to date.

The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based for-hire carrier is getting a sweet deal.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are paying most of the $27 million cost of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI). Announced...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-california-subsidies-make-battery-electric-trucks-a-sweet-fleet-deal

EVs for all: What Biden’s executive order means for gig economy

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President Biden on Thursday announced an ambitious new goal for the automobile industry – for EVs to make up half of all U.S. vehicle sales by 2030. The president signed an executive order declaring the nonlegally binding milestone a priority, while also proposing new vehicle emission standards to cut pollution by 2026.

But what does this mean for the gig economy, much of which is composed of rideshare companies and drivers? It could spell trouble.

Automakers Ford Motor Co., General Motors Co....

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/evs-for-all-what-bidens-executive-order-means-for-gig-economy

Technology brings out the sustainability for UK retailer

When U.K. food convenience retailer Co-op began its e-commerce journey in 2019, it had no idea that the partners it was choosing for that journey would help it successfully navigate the COVID-19 pandemic, but they did just that.

Bringg, a delivery and fulfillment cloud platform provider, and Naveo Commerce, developer of the Connected Commerce online grocery platform, had worked to onboard 32 Co-op locations by the end of 2019. By the end of 2020, that number reached 800 out of necessity, and...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/technology-brings-out-the-sustainability-for-uk-retailer

Logistics Tech Summit: Trucking’s drive to net-zero carbon

This fireside chat recap is from FreightWaves’ North American Logistics Tech Summit on Wednesday.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: How technology is driving net-zero carbon goals 

DETAILS: FreightWaves’Danny Gomez talks with Matt McLelland about his new role at Covenant Transportation and how it is indicative of the company culture and a change in the industry. They discuss the role of technology in sustainability and the collaboration and government support needed to achieve net neutrality.

SPEAKER:...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/logistics-tech-summit-truckings-drive-to-net-zero-carbon

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