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    The challenge of including load factors into carbon reporting

    2024-03-24T15:02:00Z

    Building load factors into a fleet’s carbon reporting is essential if the report is to properly measure carbon reduction progress. But as Stephen Fitter, from Focus Net Zero explains, calculating it is not without complication… 

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    Examining the low carbon energy hierarchy of needs

    2024-03-14T14:42:00Z

    As regular readers will know, we’ve been on a bit of a rollercoaster over recent weeks on the thorny subject of renewable fuels. Zemo’s lifecycle analysis report in January highlighted some significant greenhouse gas emission reductions on its per litre comparisons with diesel and since then, the ...

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    We can’t do this alone

    2024-03-14T14:42:00Z

    Positive news for the commercial vehicle industry this week with the new truck registration figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) showing the total market for all trucks above 6t GVW was up 13.5% on 2022. With total volumes now well over 45,000 ...

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    Decarbonisation beyond the truck

    2024-03-14T14:41:00Z

    For this week’s newsletter we’ve given the mic to Dan Benhamou, Senior Vice President at Brookfield to widen the decarbonisation lens beyond the truck. While greening vehicles is an important part of the shift to net zero, freight and logistics leaders should also be considering their broader ...

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    When zero means zero..?

    2024-03-14T14:40:00Z

    For this week’s Newsletter we’ve asked transport decarbonisation specialist Alexander Lewis-Jones, founder of Other Way, to give us his perspective on the latest brouhaha around zero emission vehicle claims. The Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) caused a stir last week by upholding a complaint against BMW for advertising a fully electric ...

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    Let’s talk about truck stops…

    2024-03-14T14:40:00Z

    Special thanks to Chris Bird, from CJ Bird Transport for giving us the spark for this week’s commentary. He left a comment on one of our web articles last week. The story was about a Chinese truck start up Windrose completing a set of long-range trials with ...

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    Delivering a partnership for the future

    2024-02-13T08:40:00Z

    As witnessed in last week’s newsletter, the Zemo Partnership has delivered some great inputs into the decarbonisation arena, both in the days of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership (LCVP) and since the re-brand to Zemo. Our comments, last week, on the life cycle analysis across a range of low and ...

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    New Zemo life cycle report cautions against rush to zero

    2024-02-03T08:40:00Z

    This article first appeared in our weekly Freight Carbon Zero newsletter - if you haven’t signed up to receive it, please register now 

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    The opportunities for artificial intelligence in road freight transport

    2024-01-25T09:14:00Z

    For this week’s commentary, we’ve handed the pen to regular contributor Darren Newman, for his thoughts on the great leap forward Artificial Intelligence (AI) could facilitate in the road freight sector. Source: Shutterstock While Telematics systems are nothing new and are not directly linked to decarbonisation, ...

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    Scoping out the future

    2024-01-18T12:21:00Z

    We’ve spent a bit of time over the past few weeks scratching away at the topic of non-financial reporting. We’ve been asked to speak at a couple of conferences and deliver a short “introduction to decarbonisation” training course for an organisation and figured we needed to know ...

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    Freight Carbon Zero – looking ahead for 2024

    2024-01-04T09:19:00Z

    As we kick off the New Year 2024, we have asked our expert commentators to share their hopes for the year ahead as the industry continues its drive to decarbonise. Chris Douglas For the sake of the operators, let’s just try to get along… I’m a big fan of open, ...

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    Beginning of the end for diesel – as COP28 secures agreement

    2023-12-23T05:55:00Z

    They took it to the wire, but the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference, which concluded last week with a landmark agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels”, has been heralded as a major breakthrough. While many wanted a full commitment to a phase-out of fossil fuels, which ...

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    Impact of autonomous vehicles on freight

    2023-12-15T14:21:00Z

    We caught up with Dominic Schofield at the CENEX LCV Show back in September, lighting the fuse for this week’s commentary looking at the role of connected autonomous vehicles in the freight sector. We sent him off to explore whether this is the holy grail for battery electric commercial vehicles… ...

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    Public and Private – Two Sides of the Same Fleet Decarbonisation Coin…

    2023-11-24T16:28:00Z

    Chris Douglas who has spent the past 25 years working across numerous road freight roles in the UK, Europe, Africa and Asia, this week shares his views on how we should be more open to taking learnings from one another… 

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    From “sun to wheel”, the new energy ecosystem

    2023-11-16T06:08:00Z

    For this week’s newsletter we’ve turned to Daimler Truck’s Member of the Management Board Dr Andreas Gorbach , who, in a recent LinkedIn post gave an enlightened perspective on the energy ecosystem. Time to shake off the legacy terms of reference and consider a truly world view of energy management, ...

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    The times they are a charging…

    2023-11-13T11:05:00Z

    Truck charging Source: Shutterstock This week, we’ve been musing on the matter of a public charging network for trucks. Over the past few weeks, we’ve started to see some notable movements in this area which is great to see. Moto Hospitality has recently submitted planning permission for ...

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    Long and winding road to net zero

    2023-11-01T06:28:00Z

    Various discussions over the past few weeks have got us pondering whether we should be concerned with the rate of progress the industry is making on its transition to the net zero nirvana. There is a huge amount of investment going into developing new trucks ...

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    How can we counter the resistance to Net Zero?

    2023-10-27T09:30:00Z

    This week’s commentary is penned by Jamie Sands, Group Operational Support and Systems Manager at Welch’s Transport, raising concerns about the industry’s apparent ambivalence to the climate crisis. 

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    Zero Emmision Road Freight Demonstration (ZERFD) programme a big opportunity for industry

    2023-10-24T09:49:00Z By Renault Trucks

    In the week the UK Government announced the £200m funding for the zero emission truck and infrastructure demonstrations, Andy Salter cast his eye over the plans

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    One year on and the journey has only just begun

    2023-10-18T12:50:00Z

    This week we’re celebrating the first birthday of Freight Carbon Zero and we thought we’d focus the commentary to reflect on the past 12 months and take a peek at what’s in store for the year ahead. Even though there has been significant progress with decarbonising the industry on many ...