Comprehensive Showcase of Global Low Carbon Trucking Innovations & Startups
From CLIMAFIX, the leader in climate innovation intelligence
Low Carbon Trucking Introduction:
Transport vehicles mostly bring to mind personal vehicles such as cars and SUVs, and also perhaps 2 and 3-wheelers. But heavy vehicles, especially trucks, form a significant part of the commercial transport infrastructure and are significant contributors to the transport ecosystem’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Road freight transport alone is responsible for about 2.8 billion tons of CO2 emissions, almost 9% of total global CO2 emissions. A very large proportion of road freight transport emissions come from heavy commercial vehicles.
Practical decarbonization opportunities are available for trucks for the 2020-2030 period. Running trucks on natural gas instead of diesel could cut down CO2 emissions significantly. Optimising the running operations and increasing the efficiency of diesel trucks could increase mileage and reduce CO2 emissions per mile travelled. And the progress in electric trucks in some countries – USA, Europe, India – offers another promising decarbonization avenue for trucking.
Electrification has the potential to bring significant decarbonization to the trucking and heavy commercial vehicles sector. While challenges remain for electric trucks – the high cost of electric vehicles and the long durations needed for charging the high-capacity batteries – solutions are emerging to overcome these. Approaches such as battery swap instead of battery charging could help. In addition, leasing models for electric trucks could overcome the high capital costs attached to electric trucks by converting a capital expense into an operating expense.
For the 2020-2030 period, innovations for low-carbon trucking will happen around battery electric & hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks, LNG trucks, efficient freight management, and carbon capture for trucks.
The Low Carbon Trucking Innovations & Startups Report provides insights on the following:
- Current & Emerging Technologies
- Innovation & Startups Analysis
- Urgency of this Decarbonization Avenue
- Unique Solutions Derived from Startups
- Commercialization Potential
- Scalability
- Highlights of Prominent Innovations & Startups
- List of 10 High-Impact Startups
For each startup, the following inputs are provided:
- Product
- Key benefits
- Technology & process
- Videos
- Links to founder profiles
- Links to prominent news & analyses about the startup
The Low Carbon Trucking Innovations Report is part of CLIMAFIX 500, a comprehensive global climate innovation and startup report.
