Mov3ment has provided some special motivation for the road freight sector to continue decarbonising its fleet and operations courtesy of its new 25x25x25 challenge.
The company has created the challenge to show that significant decarbonisation is possible today, despite the challenges present in road freight.
The challenge involves Mov3ment setting a 25 per cent target based on what’s practical to achieve via a combination of pathways by 2025 in order to win a prize of $25,000.
The challenge is simple – the winner is the first registered transport business with a small or medium fleet between five and 50 trucks who can demonstrate a 25 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions relative to their workload or freight task by 2025.
As part of the rules, only new actions count toward the 25 per cent from September 16 onwards, with the other 75 per cent of the saving having to come from a combination of fuel efficiency and operational improvements, meaning no offsetting.
To get involved, businesses can head to the Mov3ment site to register and enter the race for $25,000.
“Truck emissions won’t fall fast enough if we only rely on the rollout of new electric and hydrogen technologies,” Mov3ment says.
“We need to change both new trucks and the existing on-road fleet with cost-effective actions and we need multiple decarbonisation pathways combining network and trip improvements, fuel efficiency, and alternative fuels and technologies.
“So we created the 25x25x25 Challenge to show that significant decarbonisation is possible today, despite all the challenges in road freight.
“It feels like we’ve done a thousand strategies and policies and programs to decarbonise freight. We know incentives make a big difference, but incentives need to be for the right things if they’re going to be effective. But there are still no incentives to support smaller fleets in the most critical step of their decarbonisation journey – improving efficiency.”
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