ATRI: Renewable Diesel Better Emissions Option than BEVs – Fuel Smarts [Video]

The widespread use of renewable diesel fuel would be a cheaper and faster means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions than switching to electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks, an ATRI study has found.

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The American Transportation Research Institute has released a new report that analyzes the benefits of employing renewable diesel as an alternative to battery-electric trucks.

This analysis is a follow-up to findings from past ATRI research on zero-emission vehicles and electric infrastructure challenges.

ATRI points out that while zero-emission trucks release no direct tailpipe emissions during operation, they are still responsible for generating greenhouse gases during the production of fuels like electricity and hydrogen, and through the production and disposal of the vehicles and lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion battery production generates more than six times the carbon of diesel truck production, it has found.