{"id":57898,"date":"2021-05-17T07:07:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57898"},"modified":"2021-05-17T07:07:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T12:07:40","slug":"want-to-encourage-electric-trucks-let-them-haul-more-says-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57898","title":{"rendered":"Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC<\/a><\/h3>\n

New weight allowance incentive will help spur \u2018green\u2019 fleets, but diesel is likely to stick around for a decade.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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BC is adding new incentives to shift to a new generation of rigs like this Daimler electric fuel cell prototype.\u00a0Photo: Daimler.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Electric heavy-duty vehicles are one click closer to hitting the hammer lane on B.C. roads and passing their fossil fuel-burning counterparts.<\/p>\n

But there are a few potholes to navigate along the route.<\/p>\n

Last week, the B.C. transportation ministry announced it would allow electric and hydrogen-powered commercial vehicles to carry up to 1.5 tonnes more weight than gas- and diesel-burning trucks to help offset extra costs and encourage more \u201cgreen\u201d fleets.<\/p>\n

In a\u00a0statement released May 14<\/a>, B.C. Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Rob Fleming said British Columbia is the \u201conly province or territory to offer a weight allowance incentive that empowers trucking companies to make investments in clean technology upgrades, knowing with confidence that it will be a sound investment for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Low-carbon trucks weigh more than their diesel-burning counterparts, so the expanded load allowance will help operators recoup the cost of hauling a heavy battery around instead of extra goods, the ministry said.<\/p>\n

In addition to individual operators and businesses, the province as a whole would benefit from the electrification of the trucking industry. Increasing the number of vehicles powered by electricity, hydrogen and renewables would reduce harmful greenhouse gases, or GHGs.<\/p>\n

According to\u00a0CleanBC<\/a>, in 2018, B.C.\u2019s gross emissions were 67.9 megatonnes of GHGs. A third of that came from the transportation sector, and 9.5 megatonnes from heavy-duty vehicles \u2014 an amount equal to emissions from heating over\u00a0three million homes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Want to Encourage Electric Trucks? Let Them Haul More, Says BC New weight allowance incentive will help spur \u2018green\u2019 fleets, but diesel is likely to stick around for a decade. BC is adding new incentives to shift to a new generation of rigs like this Daimler electric fuel cell prototype.\u00a0Photo: Daimler. Electric heavy-duty vehicles are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[94,103,17312,31240,25460,23884,24686],"class_list":["post-57898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-electric-trucks","tag-hauling","tag-michelle-gamage","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57900,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57898\/revisions\/57900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}