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Thu Jan 18

Why electric trucks are our best bet to cut road transport emissions

Written by: Robin Smit, Adjunct Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney

Transport is likely the hardest economic sector to decarbonise. And road vehicles produce the most greenhouse gas emissions of the Australian transport sector – 85% of its total. Freight trucks account for only 8% of travel on our roads but 27% of transport emissions.

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