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CommentaryKeeping the lights on…
“What are you going to do when there’s a power cut?” It’s an innocuous enough question, but one that made Ian Greene splutter on his glass of wine, when his wife raised the question one evening a couple of years ago. Greene is the Head of Fleet at City Enviroment ...
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CommentaryHard yards ahead for the start-up truck builders
There was so much to see and write about from the ACT Expo the other week, we thought it warranted further comment. We asked industry analyst Oliver Dixon from Guidehouse to give us his perspective on the event. What a difference a year makes. Last year, the primary topic of ...
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CommentaryHydrogen hype or realistic option…?
Much news from California last week, where the state has recently brought in legislation outlawing the sale of diesel-powered trucks from 2036, and Anaheim played host to the ACT Expo event, a major gathering of the global carbon zero commercial vehicle clans. The new CARB (California Air Resources Board) regulations ...
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CommentaryDifferent continent, same challenges…
“It’s not that we can’t overcome challenges, but we don’t overcome them by pretending they don’t exist,” the words of Andrew Boyle, first Vice Chair of the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Co-President of Massachusetts-based Boyle Transportation, as he gave evidence in front of a Senate sub-committee on the future ...
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CommentaryIndustry transformation happening here and now
There has been a great deal written on industry disruption and the emergence of new start-up firms that challenge the status quo. Much of it has been framed in the context of digitization and technology, as new start-ups leverage flexibility and market speed that legacy companies cannot match. In the ...
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CommentaryHydrogen in the spotlight with HVS truck launch
Inner city Glasgow is an unlikely headquarters for the UK’s newest truck builder, but when HVS (stands for Hydrogen Vehicle Systems) took the wraps off its new hydrogen fuel cell-powered truck at the CV Show this morning, the company announced its arrival on the truck building scene - from small ...
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CommentaryStarting your carbon reduction plan
Over the past three weeks, we have tried to park the obsession with the search for the holy grail of carbon zero and focus on the steps the industry can take today to decarbonise the commercial vehicle and road freight sector. The more we scratch away at the carbon zero ...
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CommentaryUnderstanding carbon reporting: The second "R" of sustainability
Last week we focused on the first of the “three Rs of sustainability” Record, this week, we’ll shift the attention to Reporting. We’ve touched on emissions reporting previously and while it has still to be made mandatory for all businesses, we are increasingly hearing reports clients are including requests for ...
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CommentaryYou’ve got to measure to manage
Record, Report and Reduce are generally considered to be the three Rs of decarbonisation, we throw in Research to make it four as it underlines what we’re trying to do at Freight Carbon Zero. While the politicians, energy suppliers, infrastructure providers and vehicle manufacturers work out the path to carbon ...
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CommentaryEverything. Everywhere. All at once.
For this week’s commentary, we thought we’d hand the keyboard over to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and publish his call to action for the world without comment. “The climate time-bomb is ticking. But the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a how-to guide ...
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CommentaryWater is the new oil
As the pendulum of carbon zero energy source appears to be swinging back in the favour of hydrogen (at least measured by the number of recent press announcements) we’ve asked our energy expert Janet Wood to take a look at the production process and most importantly to water, the elixir of life, and the key role it plays in the hydrogen production process.
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CommentaryLet’s not consign biofuels to the scrapheap…
Last week another report was published extolling the virtues of battery electric trucks. While there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with that or the findings of the report, there are so many hurdles to cross before we get to this electrified nirvana, that we can’t help thinking we’re missing a few tactical ...
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CommentaryLet’s talk about skills
As it’s National Apprentice Week, let’s talk about skills. The skills the industry is going to need, and the skills it’s not going to need, as we progress to the carbon zero landing point. First, let’s separate skills from resources. The point here is about the skills, the training and ...
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CommentaryProposed weight increases for new technologies
Last week, the Department for Transport (DfT) put out its draft documentation outlining the changes to the Authorized Weight legislation. The new rules will allow additional gross weight capacity for new vehicles with lower emissions than traditional diesel vehicles. On the surface, the proposal looks like a step in the ...
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CommentaryLife in the legacy truck brands?
A recent interview our colleagues at Commercial Motor carried out with the new Managing Director at Scania UK has got us thinking about brand image, identity and differentiation between the truck manufacturers as we shift to a future beyond fossil fuels. The comments in the interview refer to Scania’s mighty ...
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CommentaryAre you making the most of the Capacity Market opportunity?
Mid January will see the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy set out procurement levels for its upcoming Capacity Market (CM) auction, due to start on 10 February. For those not familiar with the CM, it was introduced in 2014 as a way of providing an income stream for ...
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CommentaryLessons to be learned from the electric passenger car backlash
It may be a quiet news week that’s caused it or the mainstream journalists have got bored of espousing their benefits or we may be facing a real backlash. But either way, over the past few days there seems to have been the ripple of a backlash against electric vehicles. ...
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CommentaryDoes the UK 6x2 tractor unit have a place on the road to carbon zero?
For fear of sounding like a broken record coming up with yet another barrier for the industry to overcome on its journey to decarbonisation, we feel we should raise an amber flag on the ubiquitous (in the UK at least) 6x2 tractor unit. We raise this and other points, not ...
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CommentaryOur carbon zero 2023 wish list
It seems like it’s the time of the year for wish lists and new year’s resolutions, so we thought we’d ask our contributors to tell us where they would like to see some focus in the year ahead… Let’s have an open conversation [Andy] – people raising concerns with a ...
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CommentaryPricing changes on the way for connections to the electricity grid
Do you want to get a new connection to the electricity network, or boost an existing connection? You may like to hold back on that until April, because after then the capital charge for the connection will fall away. At the moment, businesses are charged the full cost of new ...
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