With more battery-electric and other zero-emission (ZE) commercial vehicles getting closer to the mainstream, there is a buzz among fleets about converting their diesel-guzzling trucks into alternative-powered vehicles of the future. But a lot still has to happen before the trucking industry transforms into a zero-emissions future.<\/p>\n
This historic transformation of the trucking industry is getting closer, but it\u2019s not here yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish it would be faster because customers are very excited about this, but I don\u2019t really know that we\u2019re going to see it happen as fast as we want it to,\u201d Paul Rosa, senior vice president of procurement and fleet planning for Penske Truck Leasing<\/a>, said March 9 during a speech at NTEA\u2019s 2021 Work Truck Show<\/a>, which is being held virtually.<\/p>\n There are about 4.5 million Class 4 through Class 8 vehicles on U.S. roads today. Each year, truckmakers build about 600,000 new Class 4 through Class 8 vehicles for all the various commercial and government applications.<\/p>\n \u201cLet’s say that the OEMs were ready to build only zero-emission trucks and the technology would support your operation,\u201d Rosa said. \u201cSo the only trucks that are going to be built are zero emission. If we use that same 4.5 million [trucks on the road today] as the bar, and you use the 600,000, which is the max or average that could be built in a calendar year, it would take us eight to nine years to turn over the entire commercial fleet to be zero emission.\u201d<\/p>\n A slower, more realistic adoption rate would start with a focus on building ZE vehicles for transit and school buses, refuse applications, and final-mile fleets, Rosa said. That would lead to about 13% of Class 4-8 vehicles on the road being ZEs by 2035. Even if a more aggressive approach was taken, Rosa said, Penske doesn\u2019t anticipate more than a 38% conversion by 2035.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going to take a while,\u201d he said. \u201cWe tell customers, \u2018You need to be ready, but you need to be patient.\u2019 I see this as a longer adoption rate, and that is what Penske is planning for.\u201d<\/p>\n While the quick conversion of fleets from liquid fuel to electric charging is not going to be fast, it has to start somewhere. Rosa said that Penske, which ranks No. 3<\/a> on the 2021 FleetOwner 500 For-Hire list, is urging its customers to begin preparing for this transformation with a plan. \u201cThe question is when you pull that plan off the shelf,\u201d Rosa added. \u201cBut if you have your plan and you\u2019re ready to implement it, you\u2019re ahead of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n He broke the ideal fleet conversion plan into three strategies: vehicles, facilities, and charging. \u201cYou need all three of those to be answered,\u201d he said. \u201cYou need to find a really good source. You need to educate yourself and constantly stay informed on what\u2019s happening because things are changing often. There could be enhancements or improvements that could accelerate your plan forward.\u201d<\/p>\n If he had a crystal ball that showed what the next few years would look like, Rosa said he sees an \u201carray of challenges\u201d ahead as the industry shifts to its alternative-powered future based on the knowledge Penske has gathered in the EV space. But along with challenges will come opportunities. He detailed 10 things he expects to happen in the coming years as the trucking industry moves to adopt ZE strategies.<\/p>\n Click Start Slideshow<\/i>\u00a0below to see what challenges and opportunities Rosa and Penske expect to happen in the commercial trucking zero-emission space in the coming years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n By Josh Fisher<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Source: https:\/\/www.fleetmaintenance.com<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Trucking’s ZE future is near \u2014 but not that close. Penske’s Paul Rosa recently detailed some of the challenges and opportunities ahead during the historic trucking industry transformation that is just getting started. With more battery-electric and other zero-emission (ZE) commercial vehicles getting closer to the mainstream, there is a buzz among fleets about converting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10272,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10270\/revisions\/10272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}CUT COTS OF THE FLEET WITH OUR AUDIT PROGRAM<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>The audit is a key tool to know the overall status and provide the analysis, the assessment, the advice, the suggestions and the actions to take in order to cut costs and increase the efficiency and efficacy of the fleet. We propose the following fleet management audit.<\/p>\nFLEET MANAGEMENT AUDIT<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"