HGVzero welcomes new members to drive decarbonisation of HGV fleets
Industry leaders in shipping and haulage recently met to launch the highly anticipated cross-industry action group HGVzero23 focused on the decarbonisation of heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) across the UK and Europe and building on the back of the HGVzero22 initiative launched last year.
The HGVzero23 action group will bring together some of Europe’s leading organisations and founding members of the initial HGVzero cohort, including Coca-Cola Europacific Partners, Tesco, XPO Logistics and Stobart, with new members including Diageo, Yusen Logistics, Clugstons, Gregory Distribution, Green 2 Delivery and more, to accelerate the decarbonisation of their collective fleets.
Within the first six months of the programme, HGVzero23 members will continue to address practical challenges, co-develop solutions with support from key industry collaborators and tackle the complex pinch points to progress successful low-carbon HGV rollouts. This will include:
Vehicle technology transition: to map market ready innovations, transition fuel options, maintenance and battery considerations, challenges of multi-modal
Infrastructure deployment: to support charging / Hydrogen infrastructure advancement; required stakeholder engagement, e.g., real estate, energy companies, DNOs
Building the business case: to unpack total cost of ownership, commercial model innovation, opportunities with OEM, hardware, software suppliers
Ian Anderton, Projects & Supply Chain Senior Manager, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners comments, “As a founding member of HGVzero, we are excited to welcome new organisations to the group that will enable us to further accelerate our collective ambition to decarbonise fleet logistics. We look forward to exploring some of the detailed challenges facing us as a sector, such as transition fuels and long-term asset projects.”
Dr Nicholas Head, Head of Sustainability, UK and Ireland for XPO Logistics said, “Being part of this collaborative action group and working with other leading haulage and global shippers to accelerate decarbonisation of HGV transport has already provided immense value to us as an organisation. We are delighted to continue our partnership as a founding member of HGVzero to address critical challenges related to the transition, improve future HGV strategy and take collective action.”
Leo Pickford, Head of Business Change, Yusen Logistics comments, “We are thrilled to join this challenge-focused action group to not only share our experiences and expertise on our net zero transition to date, but similarly learn from others addressing the same challenges as we are, with the aim of finding solutions that enable us, and the industry, to make practical progress in our collective decarbonisation journey.”
Garry Birmingham, Programme Director Decarbonisation Delivery, FirstGroup added, ‘’We are looking forward to furthering our collaboration with other HGVzero23 members to support our fleet transition. We found the knowledge share information, innovation, and network that IG brings to the group very useful in supporting the work we have done at First Bus, sharing learnings to other like-minded committed Transport fleets to address help and reduce vehicle carbon emissions.”
Matt Pumfrey, CEO, Innovation Gateway, said, “Due to the success of our HGVzero22 group, we have several new major logistics players joining our founding members for the new HGVzero23 programme, to continue our work on addressing the practical challenges of HGV decarbonisation. By collaborating and bringing the broad stakeholder community together we have a greater opportunity to accelerate change with reduced risk and cost.”
The urgent transition to zero emission HGVs is vital to meeting global climate targets and the organisations involved are looking to lead this shift through collaboration to solve one of the most complex logistics challenges.
HGVzero23 is running from Spring 2023. Organisations wanting to join the HGVzero23 programme should click here to find out more.