Criticize the use of fossil fuel trucks

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Supply chain, Logistics and operations strategy & management

Why do we transport fuel by trucks? Often, trucks are the only way to get fuel directly to gas stations. Imagine how difficult driving would be if you could only get gas right beside a train station, in a shipping port, or out of a pipeline.

Assignment question:

Q1.
Study the operations cost of logistics data of for land transportation of using Diesel powered trucks (e.g. Mercedes actros, volvo, MAN) :

a) Criticize the use of fossil fuel trucks.
b) calculate the costs of operations (estimate) for one year of running a fleet of 50 vehicles.

Q2.
If a fleet was to transform from using diesel trucks and moved to using electric trucks (e.g. Tesla Semi):
a) What are the requirements for this transformation?
b) What are the organizational changes required to perform this transformation and how will it affect the fleet management?
c) How is that going to affect the performance and other attributes of the supply chain?
d) Are there any risks or drawbacks (business and technical) of using electric powered trucks?
e) Compare the cost of operations in Q1(b) with those of electric trucks.
f) what would be required for this transformation.
g) Compare the usage of an electric truck between cold weather and hot weather (up to 50 degrees celcius)

Q3.
Discuss the importance of this transformation. And how is the CCC plan going to affect (work in favor of or against) that vision (link).

Q4.
Discuss the availability of power charging the electric trucks and the availability of it:
- for a large fleet, how is power going to be provided to recharge?
- How much time is the electric vehicle going to be running Vs the time of stoppage for recharging?
- How is this transformation going to be reliable? And how can it be reliable?
- How important are corporate partnerships
Q5.
If a company wants to introduce charging stations for trucks, what is their blue ocean strategy, forecasted demand of parking, power and forecasted earnings? and how to manage the capacity?
- Scenario 1, the company owns a fleet and charging stations
- Scenario 2, the company owns charging station and makes partnerships with multiple fleets.

Q6.
Provide your recommendations & future work for this study.

Choose one of the following countries for this study : (UK, EU country/s, USA) and write the reasons this country was chosen

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