Declining battery costs may lead to cheaper electric freight trucks
09/07/2021 / By Franz Walker
The plummeting cost of batteries could mean that electric freight trucks may soon be cheaper than their diesel-powered equivalents to own and operate. This is according to a new report from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley.
Heavy-duty freight trucks are considered to be one of transportation’s hardest-to-decarbonize segments. But the falling prices of batteries, on top of their increasing range and an expanding fast-charging network, could change that.
The study shows that the total cost of electric freight trucks could be as much as 50 percent cheaper than diesel trucks by 2030.
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