Parth Deshpande

Department of Engineering

Parth Deshpande's research aims to provide a pathway for decarbonising road freight in different countries. This is crucial given high carbon emissions from trucks, along with many possible solutions such as electrification, hybrid vehicles and alternate fuels. One of the highlights of his work is a technoeconomic analysis to show the feasibility of electric road systems, resulting in smaller batteries in electric trucks with fewer charging stops and higher payload capacities for operators. This work was awarded the
Engineering Department’s Helios prize and is a key step towards helping stakeholders take decisions on vehicle platforms and infrastructure for electrified road freight.

His contribution in the work forming his PhD thesis has been completing end-to-end analyses for different types of infrastructure and vehicle platforms, such as electric road systems, fast chargers, hybrid vehicles and the effect of electrification on logistics.