Zero-Emission Transition Planning Guidebook: Your Roadmap to Success in Delivery, Freight, and Logistics Electrification
Zero-Emission Transition Planning Guidebook: Your Roadmap to Success in Delivery, Freight, and Logistics Electrification
The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), with support from the C.H. Robinson Foundation, has released a new guidebook to help commercial delivery, freight, and logistics fleet operators plan for the transition to zero-emission vehicles. Zero-Emission Transition Planning Guidebook: Your Roadmap to Success in Delivery, Freight, and Logistics Electrification draws on CTE's more than 30 years of experience advancing clean transportation technologies. The guidebook provides a practical framework for evaluating battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell technologies, anticipating infrastructure needs, assessing financial considerations, and developing realistic, phased fleet transition plans.
Published:
November 2026
Prepared by:
The Center for Transportation and the Environment
Anna Staddon: Managing Consultant, Delivery, Freight, and Logistics Market Lead
Steve Clermont: Managing Director of Business Development
Maddie Henderson: Lead Engineering Consultant
Cristina Berenguer: Lead Engineering Associate
Andersson Niepoky: Associate, Commerical Fleets Market Lead
Robert Kasse: Director of Client Services
Alison Smyth: Hydrogen Technical Lead
Jay Woodbeck: Director of Engineering
Kate Mason: Director of Communications
Jennifer Light: Graphic Design Specialist
Funded by:
C.H. Robinson
