Decarbonisation of Heavy Duty Vehicle Transport: Zero emission heavy goods vehicles
Workshop summary report (28 October 2020, JRC Petten, Netherlands)
The European Union are committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Currently, 65-70% of inland freight is transported by diesel trucks, which are responsible for approximately 6% of all EU carbon emissions. As the amount of road freight is expected to increase by 55% by 2050, the decarbonisation of heavy-duty road transport is crucial to the EU. Heavy duty vehicles are known to be a particularly difficult sector to decarbonise because of the technical challenges accompanying their demanding mission profiles. To investigate these challenges, the JRC hosted an online workshop titled “Decarbonisation of Heavy Duty Transport: Zero Emission Heavy Goods Vehicles” on 28 October 2020. The workshop focussed on technologies that can lead to full decarbonisation of the sector, including being zero-emission at point of use. This included three technology options, hydrogen fuel cell trucks, battery electric trucks and catenary-powered electric trucks. None of these technologies have achieved the level of deployment that has been reached for smaller, short-range transport vehicles.
The workshop was structured into four sessions. Session 1 considered the Policy framework in which these technologies will need to operate. Session 2 reviewed the Technical Readiness of each of the options and their associated infrastructure. Session 3 contained Techno-economic Assessments and Life Cycle Analyses comparing the economic and environmental considerations respectively. Finally, Session 4 was a Panel Discussion involving a range of relevant stakeholders, aimed at reviewing the day’s events, and at reaching conclusions and recommendations for the future approach towards implementation of these technologies.
This report summarises the presentations and discussions from the workshop, supplemented with relevant literature information. Ultimately, it aims to compare and contrast the technical, economic and environmental aspects of the aforementioned technologies and to provide recommendations for policy makers regarding the approach necessary for ensuring decarbonisation of this challenging sector within the necessary timelines.
SEEMUNGAL Lara;
ARRIGONI Alessandro;
DAVIES Jonathan;
WEIDNER RONNEFELD Eveline;
HODSON Paul;
2021-07-27
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC125149
978-92-76-40326-5 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 30773 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30773-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC125149,
10.2760/790827 (online),
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