Wants to go electric, but some vehicles are easier to electrify than others. While the tech world is going mad for electric cars, bigger vehicles are proving more difficult. The bigger and heavier they are, the bigger and heavier the batteries need to be. More than a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions from road transport in the eu comes from heavy duty vehicles. And because nearly everything we eat, drink and where will have been in a big truck at some point, the cleaner, greener future is going to need cleaner, greener haulage. And some manufacturers are pushing on with the switch to electric, as alasdair keane has been finding out. There are millions of heavy goods trucks driving on roads all over the world. But why are so few of them running on electricity? to find out, we are near sweden s capital, home to one of europe s biggest truck manufacturers. They are on the long road to changing an industry that is having a big impact on our planet. This is the largest change our industry
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