News / Zero-emission trucks can be cost-competitive without regulatory intervention

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Zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) will be cost-competitive with conventional trucks by 2040, but efficient regulations can bring a switch closer, providing they remain “technology-neutral”, claims a new report.

The International Transport Forum’s report found efforts towards cost parity between ZEVs and trucks using internal combustion was “proceeding at a pace that will see it achieved without government intervention for all vehicle types by 2040”.

Decarbonising Europe’s Trucks: How to Minimise Cost Uncertainty adds: [However], the smallest vehicles, with high daily mileage and a ...