News & updates

It's been a massive week with our Friday Road Freight Decarbonisation Update, a Monday session with the South Island Regional Transport Committee Chairs, a Tuesday presentation at the Police CVST conference, and a Thursday election debate featuring all major political parties.

Decarbonising road freight is still rife with challenges pertaining to the availability of charging infrastructure, range capability, cargo capacity limitations, upfront costs and overall technological readiness. Despite all that, there's great things happening overseas and in NZ.

The road freight industry is still considered “hard to abate” due to the poor availability of charging infrastructure, insufficient range capabilities of some EVs, cargo capacity limitations, and high upfront costs. But luckily we've got some great minds who are up for the challenge.

Changes to vehicle rules announced by the government last week should've gone further to support the uptake of zero-emissions trucks.

Transporting New Zealand's submission notes our support for the continuation of EECA's Low Emissions Heavy Vehicle Fund.

A selection of photos from the grand opening of the heavy electric vehicle charging hub at Silverstream Landfill in Upper Hutt.