Decarbonising road freight gets JOLT from new project

Project JOLT (Joint Operator Logistics Trial) is led by The Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF) and involves partners including John Lewis Partnership, Volvo Trucks UK, and Flexible Power Systems.

Freight contributed £13.6bn to the economy in 2022 and 98 per cent of food and agricultural products are largely carried by HGVs that account for 20 per cent of CO2 emissions from domestic transport.

SRF was founded to help industry and government minimise carbon emissions from the road freight sector and is a collaboration between the Cambridge University, Heriot-Watt University, Westminster University plus industry and government partners.

In a statement, JOLT founder David Cebon, a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Cambridge University and director of SRF, said: “The urgency of the climate crisis is driving adoption of electric heavy goods vehicles at a rate that few in the industry would have expected five years ago.