A fully electric truck fleet in Germany would require a quarter of the electricity available for consumption today. IRU’s two unique decarbonisation modelling tools, developed in-house and endorsed by a university research team in Austria, have been used in a new IRU Intelligence Monitoring to estimate electric truck energy needs and associated CO₂ savings in Europe.
Truck electrification is one of several decarbonisation solutions. As battery-electric trucks become more widespread, they will place increasing pressure on national power grids, many of which are not yet prepared for such demand.
Heavy-duty fleet electricity consumption projection
A fully electric truck fleet in Germany or Poland would consume approximately a quarter of the current national electricity supply. For other European countries, consumption ranges between 5-20%.
The CO₂ savings from replacing diesel trucks with battery-electric ones vary from 0% to over 90%.
Explore the full results and tools behind the analysis covering 30 countries in this IRU Intelligence Monitoring.
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