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There are several pathways to road freight electrification, and it is unclear what works best. Of the unknowns, the most important are the penalties of electrification in terms of time, payload capacity, and grid connections. The time penalty is affected by infrastructure type and energy consumption of electric HGVs. The first talk, by Dr Parth Deshpande, will cover formulating a theoretical approach to accounting for the penalties in terms of logistics costs. Some applications of this approach will be discussed that could be used to compare electrification options. The second talk, by Professor David Cebon, will convert the theory to practice by introducing Project JOLT - Joint Operators Logistics Trial, led by the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF). This will discuss the nature of the project, the goals, and preliminary results from an analysis of data collected from the first electric HGVs run in the project.
Professor David Cebon, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cambridge, England
Professor David Cebon, ScD, FREng is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering in Cambridge University Engineering Department. He is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Road Freight and the Cambridge Vehicle Dynamics Consortium. Professor Cebon has authored or co-authored many papers on dynamics, safety, manoeuvrability, energy consumption, and decarbonisation of heavy vehicles. He is a founding member of the Hydrogen Science Coalition.
Attending lectures
The lecture will be preceded by a short presentation from a CSAR PhD Award Winner. Unusually, in this case the speaker has been a student of the second speaker for the evening, addressing different aspects of the same topic.
Technology Choice for Road Freight Electrification
Dr. Parth Despande, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge
Dr Parth Deshpande is a Research Associate at the Department of Engineering and Jesus College, University of Cambridge. His research primarily explores technology choice models for road freight electrification from both engineering and logistics perspectives. He studied for the PhD degree at the University of Cambridge and the BTech and MTech degrees at IIT Madras. He is a Board Member of the International Forum for Heavy Vehicle Transport & Technology.