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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hello, a very warm welcome to the programme. let s start here in the uk where, in a few hours from now, the next leader of the conservative party and the uk will be announced. we won t officially know who that is until 12:30 bst but we do know for sure that whomever takes the reins will have a monumental task, both economically and politically. rising inflation and the high energy prices will be at the forefront of voters minds, while businesses will be keen to see stability and a commitment to economic growth going forward. our economics editor faisal islam has been looking at some of the immediate pressing issues. this is the economic reality facing the new prime minister. inflation at 10% and heading higher on these official forecasts. it may even go above 15%. five or even ten times target. in the general economy is already falling and heading for a 1990s style recession, according to the bank of england. the core of it all, energy prices. in international markets having
We know the country has extreme regional imbalances, but what accounts for excess mortality among prime age northern adults . More and more people coming into the hospital with alcohol related liver injury and illness and actually, you know, in more and more desperate states. They have probably got nothing to live for and alcohol is an easy way out, an anaesthetic. Well ask if this is a health issue or a National Failure to deal with inequality between North And South. President trump ramps up the rhetoric on north korea. They will be met with fire and few are, like the world has never seen. Is he making us safer or not . Were in amiens, in northern france, birthplace of president macron, to hear how he finds out whether faith in his leadership is failing. After an extroadinary campaign, which entirely new political scheme was deployed, president macron must now deliver. And there are already voices in france who doubt his ability to do so. And, a Property Dispute Dating back to the Pa