Frito-Lay delivered snack foods to local grocery stores in Modesto, CA. “Day & Ross used its truck, which was equipped with a liftgate, in local pickup and delivery applications of mixed freight in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. “All three of these vehicles completed the Run and their assigned jobs in an equivalent manner to their diesel counterparts,” read the report. While the NACFE report for the electrification of medium-duty box trucks is positive overall, there is an important distinction between the different types of vehicles and their current eligibility for electrification.įor the three medium-duty box trucks in the competition, the use cases were simple.
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The report outlined five findings based on the three trucks that participated in the study, that support the conclusion of 100 per cent electrification: RoL-E used Geotab telematics technology to collect data from each of the vehicles in the demo, which helped both the companies and the study researchers to understand the duty cycle of their vehicles. NACFE defines the medium-duty vehicle segment as a box van body on a medium-duty chassis with an average daily range of less than 100 miles (161 kilometres) and has a return-to-base duty cycle. The results of the medium-duty segment were reached by studying three battery electric medium-duty box trucks participating in the RoL-E event: a Lion Electric Lion6 medium-duty box truck (Day & Ross), a Cummins-Peterbilt Class 6 220EV (Frito-Lay) and a ROUSH CleanTech/Ford F-650 (Roush Fenway Racing (RFR)). NACFE’s Run on Less - Electric was a three week-long demonstration program of 13 different electric trucks during September 2021 and was held in various regions and cities across North America, including Vancouver and Montreal. “When the simpler box truck portion of this market segment electrifies, about 380,000 trucks in the US and Canada, it will result in the avoidance of 7,681,707 metric tonnes (MT) of CO 2e annually.” The last trucks in this market segment to electrify will be those with very complex operations like garbage/refuse trucks and snowplows,” NACFE’s executive director, Mike Roeth wrote in a recent newsletter. “We think this market segment is 100 per cent electrifiable although the electrification process will start with trucks that have simpler duty cycles - think box trucks and stake trucks - and as we learn more, electrification will move to trucks with more complex duty cycles like refrigerated box trucks or dump trucks.
This means that by electrifying the medium-duty vehicle segment operating across Canada and the United States, millions of metric tonnes of carbon each year will be eliminated, saving as much as US$6,269 in fuel per vehicle per year, the study found. The final report from the North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) 2021 Run on Less - Electric (RoL-E) competition concludes that the medium-duty box truck market segment is 100 per cent electrifiable. The North American Council for Freight Efficiency’s final report from the Run on Less - Electric competition finds the simple medium-duty segment (over 380,000 vehicles in Canada and the U.S.) is ideal for electrification