USA, — Electric vehicles are a great idea for the private automobile sector but not so much for the trucking industry.
That is the near-unanimous opinion of trucking officials, and a recent report by the American Transportation Research Institute backs them up. The ATRI, a nonprofit research group covering the trucking industry, studied renewable diesel fuel as an alternative to traditional diesel and battery EVs.
The ATRI concluded that switching to renewable diesel would better reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the trucking industry. The transportation industry is responsible for nearly 29% of the nation’s GHG emissions, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, ahead of electric utilities, which are responsible for 24.8%.
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