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"Transport is Australia’s third-largest and fastest-growing source of
emissions, accounting for 23% of the total. Without intervention, transport is
expected to be the leading source of emissions by 2030.
Transport emissions increased by 3.6% from 2022 to 2023. Emissions from on-road
diesel, which dominates the freight sector, were up by 3.7%.
Diesel vehicle numbers (passenger, light commercial, freight and buses) in
Australia have grown by 84% since 2014, compared to 5% for petrol vehicles.
Passenger cars account for 44% of all transport emissions and freight trucks
23%.
One of the quickest ways to cut these emissions is to electrify vehicles. It’s
relatively easy to do for cars. Trucks are a harder challenge.
To find out how best to decarbonise trucks in Australia, our research evaluated
the lifecycle emissions from low-emission trucks. We focused on electric and
hydrogen trucks. We also compared their performance to diesel trucks across
five types of rigid and three types of articulated trucks.
Our results show electric trucks are the better, faster option to decarbonise
road freight by the legislated target dates for emission cuts. In some cases,
hydrogen trucks had two to three times the emissions intensity (the amount of
greenhouse gases emitted per kilometre travelled) of electric trucks."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
