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There’s Never Been a Better Time to Electrify Your Fleet
RMI distills steps local governments can take to electrify their fleets.
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The Inflation Reduction Act Will Help Electrify Heavy-Duty Trucking
The Inflation Reduction Act could dramatically increase adoption of heavy-duty electric trucks and help decarbonize the trucking industry.
Mobility
Reality Check: Electric Trucks Are Viable Today
Despite people’s misconceptions, electric trucks could effectively replace up to half of trucks on the road today.
Mobility
Clean Energy 101: Electric Trucks
Trucks are going electric, from your favorite pickup, to the delivery van dropping off your packages, to the big rigs that haul freight across the interstates.
Mobility
Electric Trucks Reach a Tipping Point
Electric Trucks Reach a Tipping Point New analysis from RMI shows that 65 percent of medium-duty and 49 percent of heavy-duty trucks are electrifiable today. Boulder, CO and Toronto, ON — May 9, 2022 Trucks…
Transportation
Electric Trucks Can Move Our Stuff Today
Popular passenger pickup trucks like the Ford F-150 aren’t the only thing going electric. RMI recently determined that a large portion of medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) trucks in California and New York are currently…
Mobility
More than Half of American Commercial Vehicles Are Electrifiable Today
More than Half of American Commercial Vehicles Are Electrifiable Today Electrifying vans and step vans in Canada and the US would save nearly 5 billion gallons of gasoline each year and avoid 43.5 million tons…
Mobility
Charging Ahead: How to Make Electric Mobility Work for All
EV adoption is accelerating, which, in addition to driving less, is critical to reduce carbon emissions (and local air pollution) to meet global climate goals, as transportation contributes the lion’s share of US greenhouse gas…
Mobility
Electric Mobility for All
Motivated largely by concerns over global greenhouse gas emissions, the transportation sector is focusing increasingly on a transition to zero-emissions vehicles. For this transition to be successful, not only from a climate but also from…
Transportation
Electric Trucks Make Sense—We Now Have the Data to Prove It
Pat Brandon has been hauling wine from Sonoma to Napa county for 10 years as a driver for Biagi Bros. But now, he is doing it in an electric truck and couldn’t be prouder. “The…