'To reach these ambitious climate goals, we have to look at transportation' - ABB's Stephanie Medeiros on fleet electrification.

ENPNewswire-September 10, 2021--'To reach these ambitious climate goals, we have to look at transportation' - ABB's Stephanie Medeiros on fleet electrification

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Release date- 09092021 - On World EV day, the latest episode of ABB Decoded discusses importance of fleet electrification, focused on heavy-duty vehicles.

Explores challenges of charging these vehicles and how ABB is helping drive progress in infrastructure to address these

As part of the EV100, ABB has committed to electrifying its fleet of more than 10,000 vehicles by 2030

Today marks the second annual World EV Day, of which ABB is headline partner. The global event celebrates e-mobility, while also encouraging the transition to sustainable transport. With CO2 levels at an all-time high and continuing to rise, it's vital that emissions are reduced and this transition to electric transportation is a key way to achieve this. Stephanie Medeiros, E-mobility Global Account Manager and electrical engineer by training, works on fleet electrification projects all over the world. In this podcast episode, she shares her knowledge and insight into the challenges and solutions for this important element in creating a low-carbon society.

The importance of fleet electrification

Fleet electrification is very important given that 25 per cent of emissions come from transport, and fleets are a large element of this. Within fleets, it is also crucial to look at heavy-duty vehicles as Stephanie explains:

'Even though heavy-duty vehicles constitute about 1% of the total fleets and vehicles, they actually contribute over 25% of global emissions for road transport. So, if we replace one conventional, internal combustion engine truck, it will save about 22 tons of CO2 or 500 liters of diesel per year. So, they're big numbers, and if we add all that up there's a lot of emissions that we're cutting around the world.'

'When we're looking at fleet electrification, there are really good projects already in progress around the world. For example, Amazon is planning to operate 100,000 electric delivery vans for last mile in the U.S. and all over the world, and that's going to happen over the next 10 years.'

Driving progress in charging infrastructure

When it comes to the charging infrastructure for heavier vehicles, higher charging power is required due to larger batteries and smaller charging windows. This is a big consideration when a fleet operator is going...

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