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Ship It Green: Electrification of Delivery Trucks
Don Anair, senior engineer, Clean Vehicles
December 19, 2012
http://blog.ucsusa.org/ship-it-green-electrification-of-delivery-trucks/#http://blog.ucsusa.org/ship-it-green-electrification-of-delivery-trucks/#
$1.5 billion in a single day. Thats the estimated value of internet purchases made on Cyber Monday this year, up 17 percent from last year and the current record. Most of those purchases, ranging from iPads to Furbys, will have traveled thousands of miles by ship, train, or truck before making the final leg of their trip in a local delivery truck. Of course, internet shopping prompts the question: Is getting the package delivered to your house better or worse for the environment than picking it up at the store?
A 2009 study by Carnegie Mellon, covered in this LA Times blog, concluded that the environmental impact of online shopping is less than traditional shopping basically finding that a truck delivering many packages on a delivery route produces less emissions than lots of individual car trips to and from local retailers.
But just as taking fewer trips to the store or using alternative transportation options like public transit or biking can lower the footprint of traditional shopping, so too can the impact of online shopping be reduced. One way is by using cleaner, more efficient delivery trucks.
Our recent review of electrification options for trucks shows that urban delivery vehicles, like those Fedex and UPS trucks delivering your holiday packages, have the potential further reduce their emissions and oil consumption with the use of hybrid and battery electric technologies.
Urban delivery trucks travel short, defined routes with lots of stop-and-go operation and are often parked at a central location when not in use. These attributes make them good candidates for hybridization as well as full electrification.
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Electrifying Trucks: Moving Stuff with Less Oil
Don Anair, senior engineer, Clean Vehicles
December 19, 2012
http://blog.ucsusa.org/ship-it-green-electrification-of-delivery-trucks/#http://blog.ucsusa.org/ship-it-green-electrification-of-delivery-trucks/#
$1.5 billion in a single day. Thats the estimated value of internet purchases made on Cyber Monday this year, up 17 percent from last year and the current record. Most of those purchases, ranging from iPads to Furbys, will have traveled thousands of miles by ship, train, or truck before making the final leg of their trip in a local delivery truck. Of course, internet shopping prompts the question: Is getting the package delivered to your house better or worse for the environment than picking it up at the store?
A 2009 study by Carnegie Mellon, covered in this LA Times blog, concluded that the environmental impact of online shopping is less than traditional shopping basically finding that a truck delivering many packages on a delivery route produces less emissions than lots of individual car trips to and from local retailers.
But just as taking fewer trips to the store or using alternative transportation options like public transit or biking can lower the footprint of traditional shopping, so too can the impact of online shopping be reduced. One way is by using cleaner, more efficient delivery trucks.
Our recent review of electrification options for trucks shows that urban delivery vehicles, like those Fedex and UPS trucks delivering your holiday packages, have the potential further reduce their emissions and oil consumption with the use of hybrid and battery electric technologies.
Urban delivery trucks travel short, defined routes with lots of stop-and-go operation and are often parked at a central location when not in use. These attributes make them good candidates for hybridization as well as full electrification.
(read rest at link in title)
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