Carbon Zero Insights

If you’re a regular reader of the Freight Carbon Zero Briefing weekly email newsletter, you’ll know these include a regular industry commentary piece, giving our expert insights and observations on a particular topic. Some of our registered users have asked us where they can see all those insights in one place. At Freight Carbon Zero we’re always happy to oblige, so we have created this page especially for you to review all the previous reports. All you have to do is register with us to see them. If you have a topic you think we should be covering in a future commentary, please drop us a line at editor@freightcarbonzero.com

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

2023-11-24T16:28:00+00:00

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

2023-11-16T06:08:00+00:00

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…

2023-11-13T11:05:00+00:00

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 a new truck charging and parking site ...

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Long and winding road to net zero

2023-11-01T06:28:00+00:00

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 and infrastructure and the first ...