Electric vans: the time is now

Huge businesses in the US, like Amazon, DHL, AT&T and American Airlines, are now leveraging their collective demand through the Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance, to incite manufactures and policymakers to accelerate the transition to electric commercial vehicles. In Europe an increasingly wide range of electric vans are becoming available, with all major OEMs now entering the sector and looking to build their market share.

In China, strong government support for their EV industry has seen the region build a strong base for mass production of electric vehicles across all categories, and ambitious targets to improved urban air quality are stoking demand. Across all regions business are taking delivery of electric LCVs for progressively larger pilot projects to test the operational capabilities of the vehicles. Once electric LCVs have been demonstrated to meet these requirements, primarily for range, payload and reliability, at a lower cost to businesses, the technology will represent a competitive advantage that will facilitate rapid uptake of the technology.

With falling battery pack prices and increasing economies of scale savings, in many regions, well before the end of the decade, electric LCVs from small car derived vans through to large 3.5 tonne vans, will be more cost effective for operators than diesel fuelled models. Companies in the LCV value chain, who are not presently planning for this technology transition are risking their futures.

This webinar shares some of the research from the new IDTechEx report, Electric Light Commercial Vehicles 2020-2030. The report is designed to provide companies across the LCV sector, with the information they require to make strategic business decisions in this rapidly changing market. A comprehensive 10-year outlook is provided for eLCV production, market share, battery requirement and market revenue, segmented across key regions, China, Europe, North America and the rest of the world.

This webinar was originally broadcast in March 2020.

Please note that due to COVID-19, 2020 event details may have changed.

Areas covered include:

• Seven key EV enabling technologies for Mining EVs
• Fuel cells or batteries? Energy independent?
• Equipment definitions: market player landscap
• How do you make all that electricity on-site with zero emissions and no stranded assets when you move on?
• Research from the IDTechEx report, Electric Vehicles and Robotics in Mining 2020-2030.

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