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Carbon zero insights

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The challenge of including load factors into carbon reporting

2024-03-24T15:02:00+00:00By

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

2024-03-14T14:42:00+00:00By

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 RHA has called ...

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We can’t do this alone

2024-03-14T14:42:00+00:00By

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 this demonstrates some ...

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Decarbonisation beyond the truck

2024-03-14T14:41:00+00:00

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.

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Let’s talk about truck stops…

2024-03-14T14:40:00+00:00By

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 its new battery ...

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When zero means zero..?

2024-03-14T14:40:00+00:00By

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.

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Delivering a partnership for the future

2024-02-13T08:40:00+00:00By

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

2024-02-03T08:40:00+00:00By

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The opportunities for artificial intelligence in road freight transport

2024-01-25T09:14:00+00:00By

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.