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What if solar panels on FedEx warehouses and shipping centers powered its 2,000 new all-electric trucks?
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As part of its effort to fully electrify its vehicle fleet by 2040, FedEx ordered 2,000 new all-electric trucks from electric vehicle startup Harbinger in a deal worth over $300 million. The trucks are expected to reduce FedEx’s carbon emissions by 1.7 million tons while saving $800 million in fuel costs over the life of the vehicles.
Many of FedEx’s new electric trucks will travel between the many shipping centers, sorting facilities and other buildings that FedEx owns and operates. In fact, among FedEx’s 5,000 facilities in the United States are 10 large sorting & handling facilities and 680 FedEx Ground facilities. Combined, these facilities have more than 120 million combined square feet of rooftop space. If FedEx installed solar panels on its facilities, it could harness a lot of energy from the sun to power its fleet of electric vehicles.
“FedEx making good on its commitment to electrify its truck fleet demonstrates real climate leadership,” said Johanna Neumann, Senior Director of the Campaign for 100% Renewable Energy at Environment America Research & Policy Center. The shipping leader could supercharge the environmental benefits of this move by developing a plan to power these trucks with rooftop solar installed on its warehouses and sorting & handling facilities.”
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FedEx owns and operates more than 5,000 facilities with thousands of acres of rooftop space, but has not publicly announced a goal or plan to install solar on those roofs.
Clean Energy Associate, Environment America Research & Policy Center
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