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"A new Australian electric truck company has signed a deal with the
COVID-famous toilet paper purveyor who heard the call of nature to deliver
zero-emissions bog roll.
New Energy Transport, which is using heavy Volvo electric trucks, says its
first delivery deal with Who Gives A Crap will prove that electric heavy
freight and fast-charging can be cheaper on a per kilometre basis that
conventional diesel.
Who Gives A Crap will use the electric trucks for half of its freight
requirements from Port Botany in Sydney. It follows a demonstration where New
Energy Transport delivered a container from Port Botany to the loo paper
warehouse in Yennora and back again.
“One of the hardest to decarbonise sectors for us is road freight, so we wanted
to be part of this to show that Who Gives a Crap can be a leader in that area,”
the company’s director of sustainability Bernard Wiley said in a statement.
“We want to be able to show other companies in Australia that decarbonisation
in the road transport sector is real, and that it can be done right now.
“As a small to medium sized business, we can really push this.”
New Energy Transport bills itself as Australia’s first zero-emission truck
company, and says it will launch its first commercial route between Sydney and
Wollongong in early 2026. It is building charging depots along the east coast
which it says are vertically integrated with renewable energy sources.
“We’re all coming together now to prove that it’s actually possible to have the
same productivity as diesel trucks but without any emissions,” said New Energy
Transport co-CEO Fredrik Pehrsson, who was involved in several major electric
pilots during a career with Swedish truck manufacturer Scania.
“With its high-density road freight corridors and abundant low-cost renewable
energy, Australia is actually one of the best places in the world for heavy
electric trucking.”"
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
