Charting the Course for Early Truck Electrification

The report analyzes trucking telematics data from Geotab to determine the feasibility of early electric truck adoption in California and New York, finding that emissions per mile for electric trucks are significantly lower than diesel alternatives regardless of charging schedules.

• Trucks account for 10 percent of vehicles on the road in the United States but are responsible for 25 percent of transportation greenhouse gas emissions, with these emissions nearly doubling over the last 30 years.
• Electric truck adoption is being driven by technological breakthroughs in medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and regulatory mandates in California, which 15 other states have agreed to follow via a joint memorandum of understanding.
• Analysis of trucks in California and New York indicates that emissions per mile for electric trucks are less than half, and sometimes less than 10 percent, of those produced by diesel trucks, regardless of the charging schedule used.

APA

RMI (2022). Charting the Course for Early Truck Electrification. https://rmi.org/resources/electrify-trucking/

Chicago

RMI. Charting the Course for Early Truck Electrification. 2022. https://rmi.org/resources/electrify-trucking/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rmi2022charting, author = {{RMI}}, title = {{Charting the Course for Early Truck Electrification}}, institution = {RMI}, year = {2022}, month = may, url = {https://rmi.org/resources/electrify-trucking/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }