May 16, 2024--Written by Paul Wiseman for Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Are battery-electric vehicles (BEV) cleaner than internal combustion engines (ICE) that burn organically based diesel in heavy duty trucks? The answer depends on how much of the life cycle of the energy source and vehicle production is evaluated.

It is indeed a complex subject with lots of branches, but a recent American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) paper says renewable diesel and its kin may actually be significantly greener than BEVs, when considering the entire life cycle.