Charting the Course for Early Truck Electrification

This report by RMI utilizes Geotab telematics data to identify electrifiable trucks in California and New York, analyzing the necessary charging infrastructure and the resulting emissions reductions compared to diesel vehicles.

• Trucks in the United States account for 10 percent of road vehicles but generate 25 percent of transportation greenhouse gas emissions, with these emissions nearly doubling over the last 30 years.
• The adoption of electric trucks is being driven by technological breakthroughs and regulation, such as California's requirement for truck builders to sell a growing percentage of electric trucks, a path that 15 other states have agreed to follow via a joint memorandum of understanding. Currently, fleets in the United States have committed to deploying more than 140,000 electric vehicles.
• Analysis of trucks in California and New York—which together represent about 14 percent of the U.S. truck population—shows that emissions per mile for early electrifiable trucks are less than half, and sometimes less than 10 percent, of those produced by diesel trucks, regardless of the charging schedule.

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} }