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Road Freight Transport Electrification Potential by Using Battery Electric Trucks in Finland and Switzerland

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  • Mehdi Jahangir Samet

    (Transport Research Centre Verne, Faculty of Built Environment, Tampere University, FI-33014 Tampere, Finland)

  • Heikki Liimatainen

    (Transport Research Centre Verne, Faculty of Built Environment, Tampere University, FI-33014 Tampere, Finland)

  • Oscar Patrick René van Vliet

    (Climate Policy Research Group, Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland)

  • Markus Pöllänen

    (Transport Research Centre Verne, Faculty of Built Environment, Tampere University, FI-33014 Tampere, Finland)

Abstract

Medium and heavy-duty battery electric trucks (BETs) may play a key role in mitigating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from road freight transport. However, technological challenges such as limited range and cargo carrying capacity as well as the required charging time need to be efficiently addressed before the large-scale adoption of BETs. In this study, we apply a geospatial data analysis approach by using a battery electric vehicle potential (BEVPO) model with the datasets of road freight transport surveys for analyzing the potential of large-scale BET adoption in Finland and Switzerland for trucks with gross vehicle weight (GVW) of over 3.5 t. Our results show that trucks with payload capacities up to 30 t have the most potential for electrification by relying on the currently available battery and plug-in charging technology, with 93% (55% tkm) and 89% (84% tkm) trip coverage in Finland and Switzerland, respectively. Electric road systems (ERSs) would be essential for covering 51% trips (41% tkm) of heavy-duty trucks heavier than 30 t in Finland. Furthermore, range-extender technology could improve the trip electrification potential by 3–10 percentage points (4–12 percentage points of tkm).

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  • Mehdi Jahangir Samet & Heikki Liimatainen & Oscar Patrick René van Vliet & Markus Pöllänen, 2021. "Road Freight Transport Electrification Potential by Using Battery Electric Trucks in Finland and Switzerland," Energies, MDPI, vol. 14(4), pages 1-22, February.
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