Power-intensive refrigeration trucks will be fitted with solar panel roofs in a bid to cut emissions. 🚚
The transportation of food to local supermarkets typically takes place with the help of enormous fleets of diesel fuel-cooled trucks that burn up to a gallon of diesel per hour at the same time as releasing over 22 pounds of CO2 into the atmosphere.
With efforts to cut carbon emissions gaining traction worldwide amid increasing worry over the irreversible damage already caused by climate change, many are pointing to an increase in refrigerated food delivery trucks as a problem that must be addressed. In 2015, for example, a report conducted in the European Union showed that refrigerated transport vehicles releasedcarbon emissions than regular vehicles. eNow and XL Fleet believe they can help to tackle this issue with their new battery system that largely powers the refrigerators and utilities such as air conditioning — though not the trucks themselves — using solar power.
The two companies are collaborating on a battery system that would be installed under the floors of its trucks, enabling roughly 12 hours more run times between charges. Solar panels would charge these systems while the trucks are parked and are being loaded or unloaded. The companies say that their system can even be retrofitted to help internal combustion vehicles to curb their carbon emissions. They expect to deliver their system to operators in the first half of 2022.
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