TRANSPORT
Rocking or rolling?
Is transport refrigeration fi nally at the crossroads or are we on a return journey, asks Dougie Stoddart, commercial director of Hubbard Products.
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or the last decade the European Transport Refrigeration industry has been grappling with the complexities of reading the future. Hindered by a lack of timely direction from central governments on a local level and the acceptance of signatories globally to develop climate-change protocols continuously, the transport refrigeration industry fi nds itself between a rock and a hard place. The writing appears to be on the wall for the refrigeration industry; legislative trends appear to be pushing commercial vehicle manufacturers towards electricity as the motive power train of choice. But is it the right choice for users? Reuters reports in the last 12 months alone, that U.S. leasing and rental company Ryder System has indicated it will purchase 125 delivery vans from Chanje, a unit of China’s FDG Electric Vehicles Ltd, who have spent fi ve years and an estimated $1 billion developing the vehicle, claiming
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an annual production capacity of 100,000 units from its factory in China. The SAIC Motor Corp Ltd, China’s largest automaker, has also developed an electric van that went on sale in Germany in January. DHL and Ford Motor Co are co- developing an electric van for the Deutsche Post. Production will begin in the second quarter of 2018, and the plan is to manufacture 2,500 vehicles by the end of 2018. At the Tokyo Motor Show in October, Nissan Motor Co. an early embracer of EV technology unveiled a concept model of its e-NV200 electric van with refrigeration capabilities, designed to transport chilled food to restaurants and homes. So the incentive to produce an all-electric vehicle and refrigeration system appears to becoming an imperative rather than wishful thinking. However, the practicalities are signifi cantly challenging and the key to any successful system is a) the battery pack, and b) the power management system.
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