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Sustainability takes a strong corporate commitment and an integrated team approach to make it happen. At Penske, we are dedicated to readying our businesses for the future of electrification, decarbonization, and enhancing our overall sustainability as responsible corporate citizens.
Penske Transportation Solutions operates and maintains one of the largest truck fleets with more than 372,000 vehicles. For decades, we’ve been involved in actively managing our waste streams and working through programs such as the U.S. EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership to improve our fuel economy and reduce our fleet’s emissions.
In 2018, Penske became the first commercial fleet in North America to take delivery of a fully electric truck from Daimler Truck North America. Since that time, we have only accelerated our efforts to help drive fleet electrification by ordering and running numerous other vehicles from OEMs including light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in North America.
To help make this happen, we have also begun building out an extensive charging network in California to support these new vehicles.
To accomplish introducing these new vehicles, it takes a tremendous corporate commitment and an incredible team. We’re fortunate to have this at Penske from our environmental, fuels and compliance teams, to our procurement and physical operations, at more than 1,300 locations across North America.
Today, we are doing exciting work in mapping out a wider roadmap to sustainability. This means collaboration across the Penske transportation, automotive, motorsports and entertainment businesses.
A key path forward for our transportation business today is electrification.
Our founder Roger Penske has made it our collective responsibility to contribute to a healthy environment in our communities. Our stakeholders want this from us, our communities ask this, and our associates are pleased to work with a company that cares.
Today, we are successfully operating electric trucks across our logistics, truck leasing and truck rental operations. It has been a tremendous success to say the least.
Some of our key learnings with electric trucks are:
- Driver satisfaction: Truck drivers, who have been spending years operating diesel vehicles, are blown away by the experience of driving a battery-electric truck or tractor.
- Noise reduction: Not only is the dramatically quieter ride a huge benefit to drivers, but it also alleviates the majority of the noise emitted externally, making for less disturbance in the neighborhoods where trucks operate.
- Power: The torque, acceleration and ability to maintain speed on inclines is a unique capability of an electric powertrain. Again, this leads to an enhanced driver experience, but there’s an external impact here as well. How many times have you been stuck behind a line of tractor- trailers, on an incline, on an interstate or highway?
- Zero-tailpipe emissions: Let’s be honest, there are still emissions created somewhere to create the energy that fuels a BEV, but this tech will allow us to attack emissions at the source of energy production, as opposed to every single vehicle powerplant cruising the planet. And it allows us to increasingly utilize clean, renewable energy as it becomes more available.
We’ve gained tremendous ground on the vehicle front, but we won’t stop there. Each and every day, we are identifying and deploying more best practices across the supply chain that will strengthen our sustainability efforts.
In addition to enabling our customers to blend battery-electric vehicles into their operations, we’re continuing to take a closer look at our facilities, waste streams, additional fuels and propulsion systems and renewable energy, while continuing to support original research like the State of Sustainable Fleets Report.
We move the things that move the world forward. If we stay true to our purpose and focus on the long term, while adapting to this changing world around us, we will deliver durable returns to shareholders, customers, our associates and the community at large.
By Bill Combs
Vice President Sustainability
Penske
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On Thursday, Team Penske and long-time partner Freightliner, part of Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), made history by using the pre-production, fully-electric Freightliner eCascadia semi-truck to pull a full-sized Team Penske racecar hauler to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ahead of this weekend’s Clash event.
The electric semi-truck pulled the trailer from a Penske Truck Leasing (PTL) location in Ontario, Calif. to the inaugural race at the L.A. Coliseum as part of Freightliner’s primary sponsorship of the No. 2 Freightliner eCascadia Ford driven by NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year contender Austin Cindric. The eCascadia will remain on display throughout race weekend to give fans a firsthand look at the battery-electric truck.
“Team Penske has been evolving with Freightliner since 1984,” said Team Penske Transportation Director Chris Yoder, who oversees 20 Freightliner trucks at the team’s Mooresville, N.C. headquarters and piloted the eCascadia during the historic drive. “I think it’s safe to say we’ve operated every model road tractor Freightliner has produced since 1984. Yesterday’s trip with the eCascadia will mark the pinnacle of our partnership. Together we’ve innovated and developed on the ground floor and this trip is symbolic of the next journey we plan to take together, a carbon-neutral future with a focus on sustainability.”
“At Freightliner, we’re driven to deliver purposeful innovation for our customers and there’s a tremendous sense of pride to see the innovative all-electric Freightliner eCascadia used by our longstanding partners at Team Penske to make racing history. We look forward to cheering them on this weekend,” said Mary Aufdemberg, general manager, product strategy and market development, DTNA.
The eCascadia used by Team Penske is part of the Freightliner Electric Innovation Fleet, which includes 20 battery-electric trucks in operation by PTL and its customers. The fleet began operation in 2019 and was supported by the South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), which focuses on improving air quality in the South Coast Basin of Southern California and partially funded the project.
“We’re committed to leading our industry in the transition to commercial electric vehicles and providing increasingly more sustainable truck options to our customers,” said Art Vallely, President of Penske Truck Leasing. “We continue to test new and innovative vehicles in our fleet, and we have been impressed with the performance of these Freightliner vehicles.”
To date, PTL has accumulated over 480,000 miles of use on the trucks, providing DTNA valuable feedback for the final series production coming in late 2022. The two companies share a passion for long-term sustainability and carbon neutrality, making the development process even more meaningful with Team Penske ready to author the next chapter in an incredibly successful partnership on the racetrack.
A leader in global transportation systems, PTL constructed a charging infrastructure across six locations in California. Technology partners also involved in this project included Team Penske sponsors such as Shell, Hitachi, and Siemens. Currently, PTL operates 10 Freightliner eCascadia day cab tractors and 10 Freightliner eM2 fully electric box trucks running regular routes to customers around Southern California with a focus forward on sustainability.
Austin Cindric and the No. 2 Freightliner eCascadia Ford team kick off the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season on Sunday with the inaugural running of The Clash, an exhibition run inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on a specially designed and constructed quarter-mile track inside the iconic venue.
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Penske Truck Leasing has put a battery electric eM2 from the Freightliner Innovation Fleet into service with Temco Logistics, a premier final-mile, white glove solutions provider delivering and installing appliances and home goods.
The class 6 electric vehicle is currently being used by Temco for delivery and installation of appliances to residential homes, providing service throughout Northern Orange County (Yorba Linda, Anaheim, Anaheim Hills) and the Inland Empire. The vehicle makes up to 18 stops per day, averaging 300 miles per week. When it enter series production in 2022, the Freightliner eM2 is expected to have up to 230-miles of range.
"We continue to put these innovative vehicles into service with customers who are forward-thinking and have use cases that make sense," said Paul Rosa, senior vice president of procurement and fleet planning at Penske Truck Leasing. "Temco is a perfect fit. They make multiple short trips per day and are innovative thinkers when it comes to sustainability. Along with our friends at Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA), we are looking forward to receiving feedback as they deploy the eM2 into their fleet."
In 2018, Penske Truck Leasing and DTNA announced a partnership to test commercial electric trucks from DTNA's Freightliner brand in real-world situations and drive future improvements to the technology.
"At Temco, we are very excited to continue our journey with sustainability and reduce our carbon footprint. We are thrilled to work with a partner like Penske to help us innovate and design our fleet of delivery vehicles while being an environmentally responsible corporate citizen," said Jason Woll, senior vice president of logistics & engineering at Temco Logistics.
The electric truck fleet is supported by a network of heavy-duty electric vehicle charging stations at six Penske Truck Leasing facilities in Southern California. Penske also performs preventive maintenance at these locations.
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Penske Logistics today announced that it has successfully logged more than 10,000 over-the-road miles making multiple, daily store deliveries on dedicated routes in Southern California for a leading quick service restaurant chain using two, electric Freightliner Innovation Fleet eCascadias. The company believes it is the first truck fleet operator in the United States to achieve such a feat.
"For a fleet that runs trucks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, 10,000 miles may not seem like a milestone, but we believe we are the first fleet in the United States to make daily store deliveries using battery electric heavy-duty tractors for regional distribution," explained Marc Althen, president of Penske Logistics. "We are extremely proud of our dedicated team and thankful to our partners at Freightliner and Daimler Trucks North America. Without them, this landmark would not have been possible. We're quite impressed with the performance of the eCascadia."
The eCascadias operated by Penske Logistics are part of Freightliner's Electric Innovation Fleet. The fleet is testing the integration of battery electric trucks in large-scale fleet operations. The Freightliner Innovation Fleet is supported by a partnership between Daimler Trucks North America and the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which focuses on improving air quality in California's South Coast Basin and partially funded the Innovation Fleet with a nearly $16M grant.
Penske Truck Leasing took delivery of its first Freightliner eCascadia August 20, 2019, and plans to deploy 10 eCascadias in its Southern California operations. The fleet is supported by a network of heavy-duty electric vehicle charging stations at five Penske Truck Leasing facilities in Southern California. Penske also performs preventive maintenance at these locations.
Penske Logistics provides dedicated contract carriage services through its expansive network in North America with over 5,500 safe, professional drivers, and a modern truck fleet integrated with advanced safety systems, transportation management and real-time freight tracking systems. Truck drivers from Penske Logistics handle deliveries for a variety of market-leading companies in industries including automotive, food, grocery and beverage, manufacturing, quick-service restaurants, and convenience store chains.
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