Electric Heavy-Duty Vehicles
Electrifying Australia’s trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles
Electrifying Australia’s trucks, buses, and other heavy duty vehicles
Heavy duty electric vehicles include buses, trucks, and light commercial vehicles like utes and vans. Electric trucks and other HDEVS offer a zero emissions solution. Heavy duty vehicles make up a quarter of vehicles on Australian roads yet make up over half of road transport emissions.
Electric trucks and buses have lower operating costs, less break-downs due to fewer moving parts, which enhances their reliability compared to trucks with traditional combustion engines. They also offer a potential source of revenue through vehicle to grid options and are considered safer. In addition heavy duty electric vehicles produce significantly less air and noise pollution, leading to better health outcomes for the community.
Australia is already producing heavy duty vehicles such as buses and trucks. Adding more buses reduces private vehicle reliance, upfront costs and increases model availability. Electric buses further cut emissions and pollutants per passenger. Many of these vehicles are already manufactured in Australia, including established brands and startups.
We have the cleantech ready to scale up so that we can speed up deployment to accelerate Australia towards a zero-emissions economy.
The Cleantech Showcase lists examples of projects that are capable of propelling us towards a prosperous, zero emissions Australia.
This list is not exhaustive and many more comparable projects may exist.
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