One of Coca Cola's new Hybrid Electric Trucks - expect to see more of them soon This Photo by Richard Erikkson is licensed under CC BY - Road Freight represents only 1% of the world’s road traffic but it accounts for around 40% of transport emissions. In addition to Carbon Dioxide they include other greenhouse gases such as nitrogen oxides which are not only largely responsible for smog, but also have very detrimental health effects. It has been estimated that if road freight were a country, it would be the 4 th largest emitter. Even worse, that figure is likely to increase by 300% by 2050 if nothing is done over the next ten years to bring those totals down. Because of the high cost and slow turnover of such vehicles the time to prepare for change is now if decarbonisation is to take place before 2050 at the latest. Until recently electrification of long -distance trucking was considered too difficult because of the high cost of batteries, the lack of charging stations
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