August 2026 Newsletter
Dear HVTT Forum subscriber, The main subject of this month’s newsletter is an update on the adoption of electric trucks in Africa, reported by Abdool Kamdar, HVTT Forum Board member and Technical Lead: Africa, Smart Freight Centre. I also report on my recent trip to Namibia regarding the PBS/High-Capacity Vehicle pilot project. And of course there is the regional weather update. Electric trucks in Africa Africa has been lagging other parts of the world in terms of road freight emissions accounting and reduction, as well as electrification. In response to this, the Smart Freight Centre’s training work in Africa has followed a deliberate progression in the past two years. It started with emissions accounting, getting operators to a point where they could measure CO2e emissions. That fed into road freight decarbonisation training for fleet managers, because measurement without operational levers to activate the reduction is not smart freight. Green freight procurement... Read More