{"id":352913,"date":"2026-04-29T15:01:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:01:43","slug":"will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall\/","title":{"rendered":"Will electrifying the UK\u2019s heavy-duty trucks require more vehicles overall?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/04\/will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall.jpg' alt='electrive'><br \/>Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in the UK are testing whether electrifying heavy-duty goods vehicles (HGVs) could require larger fleets. The research is using real DHL fleet data to model the London\u2013East Midlands Airport corridor and assess whether heavier batteries and longer charging stops mean hauliers need more vehicles to move the same amount of freight.  <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/04\/29\/will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Heriot-Watt University in the UK are testing whether electrifying heavy-duty goods vehicles (HGVs) could require larger fleets. The research is using real DHL fleet data to model the London\u2013East Midlands Airport corridor and assess whether heavier batteries and longer charging stops mean hauliers need more vehicles to move the&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/will-electrifying-the-uks-heavy-duty-trucks-require-more-vehicles-overall\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":352914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}