Efficient Trucks
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Project Drawdown's Efficient Trucks solution focuses on using advanced technologies to reduce fuel consumption in medium and large freight trucks, replacing traditional trucking methods. Trucks significantly contribute to greenhouse gas emissions, with heavy trucks using about 50% of the freight industry's energy and light trucks using 20%. Despite making up just over 4% of vehicles in the US and 9% of total mileage, trucks consume over 25% of fuel, with road freight responsible for about 6% of global emissions. To counteract rising emissions, available efficiency measures include low-rolling-resistance tires, more efficient engines, idling reduction devices, aerodynamic improvements, and predictive cruise control. Implementing these technologies broadly could offer substantial emissions and financial benefits compared to continuing with conventional trucks.
Impact:
If adoption of fuel-saving technologies grows from 1.6 percent to 8.6-9.0 percent of trucks by 2050, this solution can deliver 9.15-10.77 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions reductions. An initial investment of US$502.57-566.56 billion to implement the solution could save US$5.21-5.96 trillion on fuel costs over truck lifetimes.
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