Medium and Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Infrastructure

The transition to zero-emission fleets represents an excellent opportunity for transportation decarbonization, especially for medium and heavy-duty (MHD) vehicles, as 75% of the commercial trucks on the road and 98% of Class 8 trucks are currently powered by diesel. From a nationwide perspective, MHD vehicles accounted for only 6% of the total vehicle population in 2020 but contributed to disproportionately high greenhouse gas emissions. Replacing these vehicles with zero-emission technologies poses great challenges due to the lack of infrastructure planning at multiple geospatial scales. In particular, stakeholders are seeking a comprehensive understanding of the infrastructure plans for the projected MHD electric vehicles (EVs), including the type, quantity and location of the charging infrastructure needed. Through the lens of the HEVI-LOAD project, this seminar will discuss the methodologies developed by an LBNL team to project charging infrastructure needs and charging load profiles by the MHD EVs at multiple geospatial resolutions.

Speaker: Bin Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Room 292A