Case Study of Cost-Effective Electrification of Long-Distance Line-Haul Trucks

This paper investigates the economic consequences of a haulage company replacing its line-haul diesel trucks with battery-electric ones. It also examines how large truck batteries should be, whether companies use public fast chargers to complement their own, and have potential be profitable. The extra cost losing payload capacity is estimated there an investigation charge-point operator meet peak demand for charging. case under analysis designed represent typical service between terminals in major logistics system, finding that, this case, transition seems effective company. Moreover, it advisable these will likely become profitable given that utilisation factor investigated may realistically exceed 20%.