Lubbershane: Partial electrification is probably the right path for heavy-duty trucking
Andy Lubershane · Heavy duty decarbonization · May 30, 2024 · at 26:23
Andy Lubbershane discusses why full upfront electrification of Class 8 trucks faces battery weight and grid bottleneck hurdles, favoring partial electrification.
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“I'll say in general, for the category of heavy-duty trucks, Battery swapping, I think, belongs in a broader category, which I would call, you know, partial electrification, right? There's lots of things you could do potentially with a truck to make it partially electrified that get significant carbon savings benefits, potentially some economic benefits, set you on a path, a long-term path to electrification of that sector, but don't try to go, you know, And fully electrify a vehicle up front. So there's another company called range that has an electrified trailer that, you know, would not be looking to fully electrify all the miles that a vehicle is doing today, but is probably a much more cost effective way than, you know, a fully electrified semi trailer that would be doing the same and gets you started. So I really liked those approaches. And I think that's probably the right pathway for So decarbonizing a lot of ground transport, heavy duty ground transport via electrification.”
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