Medium- and heavy-duty (MHD) trucks, in many ways, are perfect candidates for electrification. They consume more oil and emit more harmful pollutants than passenger cars, leaving significant room to maximize electric vehicles’ (EVs’) primary benefits: lower fuel cost and reduced emissions.
The insights gained from this project offer valuable lessons to other municipalities and fleets operating heavy-duty vehicles as they illustrate a path forward for electrification through documented real-world application. Learnings from pilot deployments also help to inform decision-making for scaling and continuing the transition to zero emission. “This deployment and real-world performance give us conviction to continue evaluating electric options across our fleet. It also demonstrates that local governments don’t have to choose between reliable operations and environmental responsibility,” says Danna Widmar, assistant town manager.
The U.S. zero-emission truck (ZET) market continues to evolve, with this update capturing deployment activity — including purchases and leased vehicles — for cargo vans, medium-duty (MD) step vans, MD trucks, heavy-duty (HD) trucks, refuse trucks, and yard tractors as of June 2025.
Dashboard for Rapid Vehicle Electrification, or DRVE, is a powerful tool that equips users with decision-relevant information on the financial viability and environmental impact of light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicle fleet procurements across an entire fleet.
The study leads to insights and recommendations to help utilities, policymakers, and the transportation industry decarbonize fleet vehicles.
This analysis offers insights into key trends driving growth in this market, as well as opportunities to further accelerate this growth that can help inform policymakers, original equipment manufacturers, and fleet owners.
This study explores the current landscape of school buses in New Jersey, estimates the economic and environmental impacts that come with full school bus electrification, and identifies the most crucial barriers to school bus electrification in the State, identifying specific pathways to address those issues and recommendations to make adoption feasible.
The EV Ready Checklist provides a comprehensive high-level overview of steps local jurisdictions can work on to prepare their community and government fleet for transportation electrification.
Policymakers, manufacturers, and end users have experimented with a number of policy tools to promote first clean and now primarily zero-emission vehicle adoption. An expanding number of states and regions have adopted a now well-proven policy tool to efficiently deploy zero-emission commercial vehicles—and now infrastructure—faster using an innovative and flexible point-of-sale incentive: the voucher incentive program (VIP).
Focused on the top 20 light-duty vehicle manufacturers in the world by sales in 2022, this report adds an important missing piece to global research and analysis regarding how today’s major automakers are transitioning to zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Our rating is quantitative and transparent; we present full details of our chosen methodology and data sources. Additionally, the ICCT contacted all the automakers assessed in this report to seek to verify the data we collected.
