HDT Webinars to Tackle Fleet Emission-Discount Challenges – Gasoline Smarts

The push to decarbonize transportation could be intimidating for fleet managers who function heavy- and medium-duty vehicles. Regulators are pushing battery-electric and fuel-cell-electric expertise that’s nonetheless in its infancy, and we’re seeing growing reputation of renewable fuels and different alternate options for the interior combustion engine.

Beginning Might 25, the editors of Heavy Responsibility Trucking are producing a particular three-part Highway to Zero webinar sequence to supply real-world fleet insights into questions resembling:

• How will the trade cut back each tailpipe and greenhouse fuel emissions?
• What’s going to that imply for diesel engines?
• How can fleets afford this new expertise?
• Will batteries or gasoline cells be the longer term?
• What about charging and fueling infrastructure?
• Can different fuels assist bridge the hole?
• How do I set sustainability objectives and decide a technique to get there?

Half 1: Drawing a Highway Map to Emissions Discount

The webinar sequence kicks off Might 25, noon-1 p.m. EDT, exploring how fleets can get began on a path to decrease emissions. How do fleets consider their operations, choices, and assets? How can they begin setting objectives? How do they measure progress?

HDT Editor and Affiliate Writer Deborah Lockridge will average a panel dialogue with the next audio system:

Brooke Weeks, Senior Supervisor Transportation Engineering, Walmart

Weeks leads the transportation engineering staff specializing in zero-emission automobile improvement at Walmart’s non-public fleet. She’ll talk about the corporate’s sustainability objectives and techniques and the way they consider alternative-fuel and zero-emission vehicles (and trailers), together with pure fuel, battery-electric, and hydrogen-fuel-cell.

Michael McDonald, Senior Director of Upkeep, Benore Logistics 

This for-hire regional and drayage fleet is dedicated to sustainability and is “on an electrification and decreased carbon footprint journey.” When it took supply of Peterbilt’s first battery-electric manufacturing Class 8 579EV, it was the primary electrical truck within the state.

Dave Schaller, Trade Engagement Director, North American Council for Freight Effectivity

NACFE will share insights from its latest “messy center” report on a framework for powertrain decision-making, a considerate course of to determine how and when to decarbonize by means of zero-emission vehicles, different fuels, and dealing on effectivity to burn much less gasoline.

This particular editorial hot-topic webinar sequence is made attainable with the sponsorship of Mann + Hummel FleetDirect and Rush Truck Facilities.

Mark your calendar for the second and third installments:

Half 2: Different Fuels and the Way forward for Inner Combustion Engines

June 20, midday EDT

The trucking trade can’t transition to zero-emission automobiles in a single day. There may be nonetheless a lot happening within the improvement of extra environment friendly engines and different fuels resembling renewable diesel, renewable pure fuel, even hydrogen. Be taught steps you possibly can take now and within the close to and medium time period to maneuver alongside an emissions-reduction path.

Half 3: Zero-Emission Vans At present and Tomorrow

September 20, 2 p.m. EDT

Hear from fleets which have already been adopting electrical vehicles of their operations. Which purposes take advantage of sense proper now? How do you deal with the challenges of charging? Upkeep? Vary? Financing? Are you able to “future-proof” your EV journey? What position will hydrogen gasoline cells play?