eHGV toolkit gives fleets clearer route into electric trucks as real-world savings begin to emerge

A new set of open-access tools from Energy Systems Catapult is aiming to make electric HGV adoption easier to plan and easier to justify financially.

Built using data from trials involving 88 electric trucks across 33 UK sites, the toolkit gives fleets practical ways to assess costs, charging requirements and rollout strategies. At its core is a financial planning tool that models whole-life costs, payback periods and carbon savings, alongside real-world case studies from early adopters.

This comes in the same week that separate findings from Hitachi ZeroCarbon and Gridserve suggest electric trucks are already starting to stack up in the right conditions.

Their Electric Freightway project – part of the Government-backed ZEHID programme – found eHGVs can reach cost parity with diesel, particularly for fleets running high annual mileage and combining depot and public charging. Across more than two million zero-emission kilometres, operators also reported growing confidence in day-to-day performance. Read the reports here.

The question is less about whether electric trucks work, and more about where they work best.

The Catapult’s tools are designed to answer exactly that – helping operators test scenarios before committing, rather than relying on assumptions.

With Government targets requiring all new HGVs to be zero emission by 2040, and funding now available for vehicles and depot infrastructure, the combination of real-world data and practical planning tools is starting to remove some of the biggest unknowns around electrification.

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