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Can the grid handle electric trucks
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Can the grid handle electric trucks?

3 Jul 2025 · Intelligence, Environment

A fully electric truck fleet in Germany would require a quarter of the electricity available for consumption today.

IRU¡¯s two unique decarbonisation modelling tools, developed in-house and endorsed by a university research team in Austria, have been used in a new ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Intelligence Monitoring to estimate electric truck energy needs and associated CO? savings in Europe.

Truck electrification is one of several decarbonisation solutions. As battery-electric trucks become more widespread, they will place increasing pressure on national power grids, many of which are not yet prepared for such demand.

Heavy-duty fleet electricity consumption projection

A fully electric truck fleet in Germany or Poland would consume approximately a quarter of the current national electricity supply. For other European countries, consumption ranges between 5-20%.

The CO? savings from replacing diesel trucks with battery-electric ones vary from 0% to over 90%.

Explore the full results and tools behind the analysis covering 30 countries in this ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½Intelligence Monitoring.

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