The Environmental Protection Agency a couple weeks ago set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks covering model years 2027 through 2032. There’s more than 1,100 pages in the final rule, but the short version is about 25% of new heavy trucks sold in the U.S. need be zero emission by 2032.
GHG 3 isn’t mandating battery-electric trucks. As far as propulsion method goes, the rule is technology agnostic. But it’s unrealistic to expect compliance without wide implementation of battery-electric powertrains. The unique thing about GHG 3 is that it’s not really a rule that fleets will have to comply with, at least not directly. The onus lies on truck manufactures. They have to make and sell set percentages of these trucks so trucking fleets, as the consumer, simply get dragged along for the ride.
Jim Mullen, executive director of the Clean Freight Coalition, said that’s certainly going to influence buying habits and fleet renewal cycles in the years ahead.
00:00 10-44 intro
00:31 Emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks
01:33 Buying habits and fleet renewal cycles
02:56 Vehicle technology and mandates
06:08 Election year
07:57 Implementation of BEV in commercial trucking
08:58 The trucking industry as micro industries
12:07 Reducing transportations emissions
