by Walther Ploos van Amstel
Electric trucks are steadily moving from pilot projects to mainstream city logistics. A new report by C40 Cities, the University of Exeter, Arup and Laneshift argues that cities can accelerate this transition by combining regulation, charging infrastructure and long-term policy certainty. Their central message is compelling: electrification reaches a “tipping point” only when three conditions …
The Laneshift program, a joint initiative by C40 Cities and The Climate Pledge, has spent three years proving the business case for electric freight trucks in India, Brazil, and Mexico. The 2025 Impact Report presents the results. For transport managers watching the global transition, the numbers are worth knowing. What was deployed 357 electric freight …
The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), working with leading EV deployment practitioners, has published nine principles to close a structural gap: vehicle electrification is outpacing utilities’ ability to energize the charging infrastructure that supports it. Left unaddressed, this mismatch risks higher electricity prices, slower EV adoption, and the erosion of public support for electrification. …
Lidl Netherlands is setting a world first: by 2027, the supermarket chain will replenish all its stores entirely by electric transport — the first retailer anywhere in the world to do so. The original 2030 target has been brought forward by three years, a milestone announced at the opening of a new fast-charging hub in …
How Do You Determine the Right Charging Infrastructure? What strategic, tactical, and operational questions do you need to answer? Electric vehicles require charging stations to recharge their batteries — stations that are located in the right places and sized to match the realities of daily urban logistics operations. Freight transport, where delivery predictability and low …
Albert Heijn recently opened a new charging hub for electric trucks at its National Distribution Center in Geldermalsen. Equipped with ten fast chargers delivering up to 560 kW, the facility marks another significant step in decarbonizing the retailer’s logistics network. If you spot an electric truck on a Dutch motorway today, there is a good …
On 30 January 2026, through the distribution market sector of Transport en Logistiek Nederland, we made an inspiring company visit to Lidl Netherlands in Almere. The visit focused on their sustainability vision and the layout of their charging yards. Lidl demonstrated how they have structurally integrated electric transport into their logistics operations and how charging …
What competencies should a transport and warehousing professional in a logistics service company have when designing, organizing, and managing energy systems (hardware and data) for the electricification of freight? Strategic, tactical, and operational questions in charging infrastructure Companies will be electrifying their fleets in the years ahead. How do you prepare for that as a …
The article “Modeling the dynamics of freight transport decarbonization: A review and research agenda” (Tavasszy et al., 2026) examines how existing freight transport models largely fail to address the dynamic processes required to achieve climate neutrality. The core question is not whether decarbonization is technically possible, but how long it will take and how reliably …
Freight transport accounts for a substantial share of global greenhouse-gas emissions and is expected to grow strongly in the coming decades. Against this backdrop, a new paper examines how academic research addresses the decarbonisation of road freight and urban logistics. The results reveal a rapidly expanding field that remains surprisingly fragmented and heavily technology-centred. Rapid …