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Environment:<br />

Heavy-duty Trucks Are Important<br />

• According to NASA‘s Goddard Institute for<br />

Space Studies, on-road transportation is the<br />

largest driver of climate change, and CO 2 is<br />

the most important chemical species<br />

• Fuel use translates directly to CO 2 emissions,<br />

and according to the US Department of Energy,<br />

heavy-duty trucks are one of the largest<br />

consumers of petroleum fuels, with Class 8<br />

(>15t) trucks accounting for nearly 70% of that<br />

Climatic Forcing by Economic Sector<br />

source: Research and<br />

Development Opportunities for<br />

Heavy Trucks, US DOE, June 2009.<br />

source: Unger et al, Attribution of climate forcing to economic sectors,<br />

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS 2010 107 (8) 3382-<br />

3387, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0906548107<br />

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