Online roundtable - Vienna / CET
CorridorToZero.EU invites to Cross-European Roundtable of Stakeholders on Zero Emission Freight Connectivity
This is a working session for the stakeholders who can turn zero-emission freight corridors into real operations: shippers, fleet operators, charging infrastructure developers, investors, and public sector decision-makers.
Description
Sustainable road freight connectivity - resilience and sovereignty for Europe
The goal
Seamless high-power truck charging Infrastructure from North to South from East to West
The problem
Europe's road freight runs on diesel - not because zero-emission alternatives are missing, but because no one commits first.
Shippers wait for zero emission trucks to be available to go through everywhere. Fleet operators wait for chargers on the way to buy more e-trucks. Charging networks wait for enough trucks to come to charge. The cycle holds. Investors wait for the loop to break and the system scales, so the ROI is there. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem in popular language or, in a professional language, it’s a feasibility gap.
The solution
Road freight will not decarbonize organically - unlike passenger cars. It requires coordinated action across industries, governments, and investors simultaneously, along all the thousands of kilometers of the European roads. The demand commitments for zero emission freight operation, the sustainable fleets, powering infrastructure, and the digital layer must move forward together.
The gap to be closed through collaboration together, to align the approaches, call for public support mechanisms, to get financed timely and to break through the issue, stronger, forward.
This roundtable is designed to break the loop
Registration
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The Agenda
A working agenda for the stakeholders shaping zero-emission freight connectivity
Big Picture
Net Zero Freight - EU Sovereignty and Resilience: the way out of the oil supply crisis?
Looking at the puzzle - what is there and what is still missing?
Goals and milestones
Alignment of interests
Funding and Investments
Cross-border collaboration and joint action
Meeting the regulations
Practical regulatory needs
Demand. Switching to ZE freight
Formal commitment to preference for zero emission freight transportation
Setting predictable (tentative) amounts of demand of use on specific directions/routes. Matching and exceeding costs. Connecting Net Zero freight commitments to sustainability reporting
Fleets and Transportation
Why logistical operators don't buy electric trucks in overwhelming quantities?
Why do we fail the fast and total transition?
Projected need in fleets to meet the transportation demand
Projected fleet market availability, supply and purchase
Intermodality collaborations:
Connections to rail
Connections to ferries
Connections to marine and inland waterways
Infrastructure and Energy
Effective cross-border coordination
Routing the corridors where they make the most of impact
Charging network geospatial architecture
Designs: efficient and resilient
Equipment and Components
Engineering and Installation
Local Renewable Energy and Energy Storage
Location planning and infrastructure restrictions
Property issues (for charging infrastructure)
Aesthetic issues of charging infrastructure
Digital. IT Solutions and Infrastructure
Funding and Financing Opportunities
IFI and Bank products
EU, National and Regional support Programs
Cross-border projects
"Single Window" funding concepts
At the end of each roundtable session, conclusions are consolidated into a final resolution for publication.
Who should be in the room
The stakeholders who can move demand, fleets, infrastructure, finance, and policy together
01
Shippers, manufacturers, and major buyers of freight who set procurement and transport decarbonisation targets
02
Transport companies and logistics operators scaling electric trucks and other zero-emission heavy-duty vehicles
03
CPOs and charging infrastructure developers
04
EU, national, and regional policy advisors working on freight, AFIR, TEN-T, and heavy mobility
05
Infrastructure and climate-tech investors
06
Energy companies and grid operators
When & Where
Event details
Day
TBD
Tickets and approvals
Free for stakeholders. Paid access for suppliers and solution providers
Free
For stakeholders
Paid
For suppliers
Roundtable pre-registration
Pre-registration
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