CorridorToZero.EU: Cross-European Roundtable of Stakeholders on Zero Emission Freight Connectivity

​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

​The Agenda

​Opening 14:00 CET

• ​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?

​Stakeholder Empowerment

• ​Goals and milestones

• ​Alignment of interests

• ​Funding and Investments

• ​Cross-border collaboration and joint action

• ​Meeting the regulations

• ​Practical regulatory needs

• ​Stakeholder Coordination

​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

​Powering Growth with Finance

• ​Funding and Financing Opportunities

  • ​IFI and Bank products

  • ​EU, National and Regional support Programs

  • ​Cross-border projects

  • ​"Single Window" funding concepts

​Finalising the roundtable recommendations in the resolution

​At the end of each roundtable session, conclusions are consolidated into a final resolution for publication.

​Closing words 18:00

​A part of the CorridorToZero.EU Organised by GNerdiX OÜ, Estonia.