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ORNL/TM-2017/744 Electrification Beyond Light Duty: Class 2b-3 Commercial Vehicles Alicia K. Birky Michael Laughlin Katie Tartaglia Rebecca Price Brandon Lim Zhenhong Lin December 2017 Approved for public release. Distribution is unlimited. DOCUMENT AVAILABILITY Reports produced after January 1, 1996, are generally available free via US Department of Energy (DOE) SciTech Connect. 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Birky, PhD Michael Laughlin, PMP Katie Tartaglia Rebecca Price Brandon Lim Zhenhong Lin, PhD Date Published: December 2017 Prepared by OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6283 managed by UT-BATTELLE, LLC for the US DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................................................................... v LIST OF TABLES ........................................................................................................................................ v List of Acronyms ........................................................................................................................................ vii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................................................................. ix 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Background ................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 Scope and Objectives .................................................................................................................. 1 1.3 Approach ..................................................................................................................................... 2 2. Market Overview .................................................................................................................................. 5 2.1 Class 2b-3 Models and Sales ...................................................................................................... 5 2.2 Vehicle Usage ............................................................................................................................. 8 2.2.1 Fleet Size ........................................................................................................................ 8 2.2.2 Use ................................................................................................................................. 9 2.3 Research Status ......................................................................................................................... 10 2.4 Commercial Status of Electrification ........................................................................................ 11 3. Market Environment ........................................................................................................................... 13 3.1 Fuel Consumption Standards .................................................................................................... 13 3.2 Advanced Clean Cars Program ................................................................................................. 14 4. Market Viability .................................................................................................................................. 17 4.1 Consumer Demand .................................................................................................................... 17 4.2 Production Volume ................................................................................................................... 18 4.3 Manufacturer Activity ............................................................................................................... 19 4.4 Technology Readiness and Customer Needs ............................................................................ 20 4.5 Promising Applications ............................................................................................................. 21 4.6 Purchase Decisions ................................................................................................................... 22 4.7 Willingness to Adopt New Technologies ................................................................................. 23 4.8 Benefits ..................................................................................................................................... 24 5. Findings .............................................................................................................................................. 27 5.1 Barriers ...................................................................................................................................... 27 5.1.1 Technical Barriers ........................................................................................................ 27 5.1.2 Economic Barriers ....................................................................................................... 28 5.1.3 Operational Issues ........................................................................................................ 29 5.2 Opportunities ............................................................................................................................. 29 5.3 Strategies ................................................................................................................................... 30 5.3.1 Consumer Demand ....................................................................................................... 30 5.3.2 Performance and Design .............................................................................................. 30 5.3.3 Production Volume and Cost ....................................................................................... 31 5.4 Key Insights .............................................................................................................................. 31 References ................................................................................................................................................... 35 iii iv LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Historical class 2-3 truck sales. .................................................................................................... 6 Figure 2. Class 2b-8 vehicle registrations. ................................................................................................... 7 Figure 3. Class 2b-3 pickups and vans by fuel type. .................................................................................... 8 Figure 4. Fuel consumptions standards as a function of work factor. ........................................................ 14 Figure 5. Illustration of fuel consumption standard for class 2b-3 pickup trucks. ..................................... 14 Figure 6. Increase in mandated ZEV/TZEV sales through 2018. .............................................................. 14 LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Example class 2b vehicle models (8,500 - 10,000 lbs GVWR) ..................................................... 5 Table 2. Example class 3 vehicle models (10,001-14,000 lbs GVWR) ....................................................... 6 Table 3. Class 2-3 plug-in electric pickup and van models ....................................................................... 12 v vi LIST OF ACRONYMS ACC Advanced Clean Cars ARRA American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 BEV battery electric vehicle CAFE Corporate Average Fuel Economy CARB California Air Resources Board EPA Environmental Protection Agency EPRI Electric Power Research Institute GVWR gross vehicle weight rating ICE internal combustion engine kWh kilowatt hour NHTSA National