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fuel over EV transition
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TRUCKING RESEARCH FIRM TOUTS RENEWABLE DIESEL FUEL OVER EV TRANSITION


$200B PRICE TAG STILL FAR CHEAPER THAN SHIFT TO ELECTRIC TRUCKS, REPORT FINDS

John Gallagher
· Tuesday, April 23, 2024
ATRI report finds EV trucks six times as costly as renewable fuels. (Photo: Jim
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WASHINGTON — New trucking industry-backed research finds renewable diesel (RD)
fuel to be significantly less costly and more operationally effective than
transitioning to battery-powered trucks.

Electric vehicle purchases and electric infrastructure will cost the long-haul
sector more than $1 trillion over 15 years, a study released Tuesday by the
American Transportation Research Institue (ATRI) estimates.

That compares with $203 billion using renewable fuel to power internal
combustion engine (ICE) trucks to achieve similar decarbonization benefits, the
study found.

“My company quickly and successfully transitioned to renewable diesel in April
of last year,” said Andy Owens, a member of ATRI’s research advisory committee
and CEO of A&M Transport, a Glendale, Oregon, truckload hauler. “ATRI’s research
offers concrete evidence that this move is better for the environment and easier
to achieve than other low-carbon options.”








The report, which comes weeks after the Biden administration rolled out new
tailpipe emission standards for heavy-duty trucks, adds to previous ATRI
research on zero-emission vehicles and electric infrastructure challenges.

Source: ATRI

Unlike biodiesel, which can corrode engines due to the way it’s produced,
renewable diesel is produced to be chemically identical to petroleum diesel,
ATRI points out, and can therefore be mixed with petroleum diesel in any amount
or used as a stand-alone fuel in a traditional diesel truck “without
consequences.”

In addition to cost comparisons, the research conducted environmental and
operational comparisons between heavy-duty truck tractors propelled by ICE using
renewable diesel and those powered by batteries.

Among environmental benefits, ATRI found that life-cycle carbon emissions —
which includes production and supply chain costs — are approximately 50% lower
for ICE using renewable fuels than for BEVs. “Government mandates requiring a
shift to BEV instead of ICE RD would result in fleets increasing their total CO2
emissions,” according to the report.








In comparing truck operations, ATRI noted that the distance a Class 8 truck can
travel between charging and the cargo weight a vehicle can carry are key metrics
for measuring and maintaining efficient operations in trucking.

Because batteries required for heavy-duty truck engines weigh thousands of
pounds, the study found that for every 1,000 ICE trucks replaced by BEV trucks
hauling the additional weight, as many as 343 more trucks — with corresponding
additional emissions — will be needed to haul the same amount of freight, taking
into account federal and state highway weight limits.

“RD has the ability to achieve public policy goals related to CO2 emissions at a
discounted price and with greater certainty than BEV,” ATRI stated.



“Existing programs, such as the federal producers tax credit, must continue for
the foreseeable future to encourage new entrants (both in terms of companies and
facilities) into the RD production environment.”

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5 COMMENTS

 1. MIIN, MJ YAN, PHD, PE
    
    Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 8:15 am
    
    Dave P.
    Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 3:54 pm
    Is there any consideration for reducing particulates that seem to be
    prevalent with use of diesel fuel?
    Dave :
    Yes, there is a technology called “Diesoline” which makes diesel-gasoline
    hybrid eliminating diesel’s soot, NOX and noise.
    
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 2. MIIN, MJ YAN PHD, PE
    
    Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 8:07 am
    
    John:
    Enjoy your deep thinking article. The millions of ICE trucks are still the
    best transportation machines we have. The diesel’s evil in fuel, soot, NOx,
    and even noise can be greatly reduced or eliminated via a new “Diesoline”
    hybrid technology, which makes diesel engines’ combustion more like
    gasoline’s. Moreover, it also makes current 4-cycle engines to compete the 4
    strokes, different in both displacements and periods, per revolution. This
    technology can easily be applied in retrofit to the existing and new engines
    saving tremendous cost.
    If there is interest we can discuss further.
    
    Reply
    

 3. MIKE NACRELLI
    
    Friday, April 26, 2024 at 1:52 pm
    
    This seems intuitively obvious to me. Aside from the cost and logistical
    challenges of switching to electric vehicles, as well as the environmental
    impacts associated with the batteries, we’re nowhere even close to being
    able to provide all of our electricity from “green” sources.
    
    Reply
    

 4. DAVE P.
    
    Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 3:54 pm
    
    Is there any consideration for reducing particulates that seem to be
    prevalent with use of diesel fuel?
    
    Reply
    

 5. LEEANN MILLER
    
    Wednesday, April 24, 2024 at 1:16 pm
    
    This article isn’t specific about infrastructure changes. Does this include
    imbedding charging infrastructure in the driving lane so that there is a
    continuous charge for truck so that the battery size would be minimized and
    only be needed to get from the highway to delivery location? This is where
    the research for EV trucks is going to minimize batteries needed and get
    trucks where they need to go. This may be a good option for today but does
    it really stand up long term and how does it reduce tail pipe emissions? If
    it is chemically identical to petroleum diesel, it would seem you would get
    the same emissions. Where is the CO2 savings? If you are taking it out of
    something that is banking CO2 it doesn’t stand up to reducing emissions. I
    agree RD can do some amazing things but this doesn’t seem to take into
    account the RD being done on EV either.
    
    Reply
    


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JOHN GALLAGHER

Based in Washington, D.C., John specializes in regulation and legislation
affecting all sectors of freight transportation. He has covered rail, trucking
and maritime issues since 1993 for a variety of publications based in the U.S.
and the U.K. John began business reporting in 1993 at Broadcasting & Cable
Magazine. He graduated from Florida State University majoring in English and
business.
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