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Cost-competitiveness of the electric truck diminishes in drive cycles with higher average speeds. Researchers at Georgia Tech have compared medium-duty (MD) electric and diesel urban delivery trucks in terms of life-cycle energy consumption, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and total cost of ownership (TCO). Click to enlarge.

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They also found that the total costs of ownership (TCO) of the electric and diesel trucks are similar. Brown (2013) Electric Urban Delivery Trucks: Energy Use, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Cost-Effectiveness. Click to enlarge. System boundary diagram. Credit: ACS, Lee et al. Click to enlarge. Dong-Yeon Lee, Valerie M.

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However, managed EV adoption can reduce the cost of achieving GHG reductions through a RES, they concluded in their paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. A negative value means the case has a lower TCE than the reference case. Credit: ACS, Choi et al. Click to enlarge. In contrast, the ?TCE

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