I fully understand that we need to move forward and you have to remember that the EU have similar plans, so I'm assuming that any HGVs driving over to the EU will also have to fit into their timeframe for electrification.
This is an interesting report from 2018, these paragraphs did stand out.
4. Charging requirements and its impact on the grid and electricity generation
Total energy demand The total energy demand of a fleet of BETs in the EU is an important metric for anticipating generation requirements. As will be discussed in this section, it will depend on charging strategies that are employed by the haulier. As a point of comparison, the average annual electricity consumption of a household in the EU is 3.5 MWh , implying a single truck charge of 1 MWh would be the equivalent to under a third of 25 the annual consumption of an average house, or for the BYD truck, around 6% of an average houses. In terms of power, 3.5 MWh spread over the year is 0.4 kW;
assuming fast charging with a 1 MW connection, the battery electric truck would draw as much power as 2500 houses. This can be compared to a recent article from the Financial Times that reported a long-haul electric truck requiring the electricity of 3000 to 4000 average UK houses per truck charge.
With a full fleet of electric vehicles on the road, the question often arises as to whether or not the EU grid and generation capacity could cope with the new demand. To get an order of magnitude appreciation of the total electricity required to charge a European fleet of long haul BETs, the energy consumption per truck (1.44 kWh/km, noting that this from the less aerodynamic heavy duty truck travelling at 90 km/h) can be combined with the number of trucks in the EU (4.5 million) with calculated average mileage (50 000 km/year, covering all truck sizes and ages [15]). This would equate to 324 TWh, or just over 10% of EU generation in 2015 which was 3000 TWh . For comparison Bitcoin estimated global annual 27 energy consumption is 45 TWh as of end of January, or 0.2% of world consumption.
The EU executive has set a target of building one million public recharging points by 2025 across the EU, with three million by 2030.
Environmentally, heavy-duty vehicles are responsible for around a quarter of carbon emissions from road transport, or some 6% of total EU emissions, according to European Commission statistics.
A switch to electric freight vehicles, which generate no emissions if powered by renewable energy, would help to cut this figure, putting Europe on track to meet its carbon neutrality target by 2050.
The European Commissionās
strategy for sustainable and smart mobility, unveiled in December 2020, set an objective of having 80,000 zero-emission trucks on the road by 2030.
However, industry has warned that this figure is insufficient to meet the EUās CO2 targets. The European Automobile Manufacturers Association (ACEA) has said at least 200,000 clean trucks will need to be on the road by 2030 to meet emissions goals.
ACEA estimates around 6.2 million medium and heavy commercial vehicles are currently in operation in the EU. Only 0.04% of these vehicles are zero emission.
Electric freight trucks will soon be technologically ready to replace fossil-fuel powered trucks, but the lack of fast-charging infrastructure will hamper uptake, a new study has found.
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The number of zero-emission trucks on European roads will need to increase from around 2,300 at present to 200,000 by 2030 if the EU's CO2 targets are to be met, truck makers warn.
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