Sunshine in your tank

02/07/20 • 16 min

Meet the movers and shakers behind TRAILAR, a company using the sun’s energy to make trucks greener.

TRAILAR is a young company using the sun’s energy to make trucks greener. It was a fledgling idea in 2017. Now, three years later, the company’s product is installed on about 1,000 trucks – helping them save on emissions and CO2.

TRAILAR is a young company that harnesses solar power to make trucks greener. In 2017, two DHL colleagues had an idea for an innovative product that could help trucks tap into the sun’s energy to save fuel and CO2. The idea became reality, and the startup is now a subsidiary of DHL. By 2019, the system was already installed on more than 1,000 vehicles worldwide. In this episode of the podcast, learn about the founders’ revolutionary idea, the story of the startup, and how trucks are becoming more eco-friendly with the help of TRAILAR’s solar mats.

Reporter: Kristen Lehmann

Host: Deborah Friedman

Editor-in-Chief: Markus Wohsmann

Production: Tobias Buchwald, Stefan Felten

Marketing and digital promotion: Daniel Montua

Living Logistics is produced by the Central Editorial Team and the Digital Communications Team within the Communication, Sustainability & Brand department at Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, Germany.

Jobs & Careers at Deutsche Post and DHL: https://www.dpdhl.com/career

Links:

TRAILAR website https://www.trailar.co.uk/

International Energy Agency https://bit.ly/2FRtWJX

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) https://bit.ly/2tgSjy9

10 tips on saving energy from Energysage https://bit.ly/2FRxpIF

Literature:

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings - 10th Edition: Save Money, Save the Earth, Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson and Katie Ackerly https://amzn.to/2QScuLJ

Our Renewable Future, Richard Heinberg and David Fridley https://amzn.to/387x2G4

Taming the Sun, Varun Sivaram https://amzn.to/2QRlscg

Meet the movers and shakers behind TRAILAR, a company using the sun’s energy to make trucks greener.

Reporter: Kristen Lehmann

Host: Deborah Friedman

Editor-in-Chief: Markus Wohsmann

Production: Tobias Buchwald, Stefan Felten

Marketing and digital promotion: Daniel Montua

Living Logistics is produced by the Central Editorial Team and the Digital Communications Team within the Communication, Sustainability & Brand department at Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, Germany.

Jobs & Careers at Deutsche Post and DHL: https://www.dpdhl.com/career

Links:

TRAILAR website https://www.trailar.co.uk/

International Energy Agency https://bit.ly/2FRtWJX

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) https://bit.ly/2tgSjy9

10 tips on saving energy from Energysage https://bit.ly/2FRxpIF

Literature:

Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings - 10th Edition: Save Money, Save the Earth, Jennifer Thorne Amann, Alex Wilson and Katie Ackerly https://amzn.to/2QScuLJ

Our Renewable Future, Richard Heinberg and David Fridley https://amzn.to/387x2G4

Taming the Sun, Varun Sivaram https://amzn.to/2QRlscg

Previous Episode

Rotterdam, green and growing

A big city with CO2-neutral transportation? It's becoming a reality in Rotterdam.

A big city with CO2-neutral transportation? That may sound like science fiction, but it’s becoming a reality in Rotterdam. A trip through The Netherlands’ second largest city shows what governments, companies and residents can achieve when they work together to create green, urban logistics.

Rotterdam is home to Europe’s largest container port. Some 136,000 ships docked in the busy harbor in 2018. Traffic and congestion are also a part of everyday life, making air pollution a major cause for concern. That’s why the city of Rotterdam is working closely with local companies and residents to create innovative and green urban solutions.

In a low-emission tour of Rotterdam, we look at how logistics company DHL is working closely with Rotterdam’s city council to reduce emissions and implement sustainable green solutions. With e-transporters, e-trucks and e-bicycles, the company has already achieved emissions-free, last-mile deliveries.

Reporter: Gaby Pinkner

Host: Deborah Friedman

Editor-in-Chief: Markus Wohsmann

Production: Deborah Friedman

Marketing and digital promotion: Daniel Montua

Living Logistics is produced by the Central Editorial Team and the Digital Communications Team within the Communication, Sustainability & Brand department at Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, Germany.

Jobs & Careers at Deutsche Post and DHL: https://www.dpdhl.com/career

Links:

City Government - Rotterdam: https://bit.ly/35Rbpbl

Port of Rotterdam: https://bit.ly/2u2knFj

Recommendations:

The 500 hidden secrets of Rotterdam, Saskia Naafs: https://www.the500hiddensecrets.com/netherlands/rotterdam

Next Episode

Green at heart

Can any one person's actions help save the environment? Meet people making a difference.

Saving the environment and halting climate change? It's a tall order – so can any one person's actions really make a difference? Meet DHL employees around the world who are proving just how big an impact each one of us can have.

Around 550,000 people work for Deutsche Post DHL Group. Taken together, this huge family of employees can make a significant contribution to protecting the environment and keeping climate change in check. Realizing this, the company responded with its own sustainability program: GoGreen. One goal of the program is to certify 80% of employees as environment experts – called "GoGreen Specialists" – over a five-year period. This aims to help Deutsche Post DHL Group achieve its target of net-zero logistics emissions by the year 2050.

In this episode, we focus on DHL's effort to promote greater awareness for climate and environment issues. And we introduce you to employees around the world who are already green at heart – fully committed to the GoGreen cause. Come meet the people who fish garbage out of the ocean in Malaysia, plant trees in Prague, and monitor air quality in Milan.

Reporters: Tom Malar, Patricia Heine, Shivani Shrivastava

Host: Deborah Friedman

Editor-in-Chief: Markus Wohsmann

Production: Tom Malar

Marketing and digital promotion: Daniel Montua

Living Logistics is produced by the Central Editorial Team and the Digital Communications Team within the Communication, Sustainability & Brand department at Deutsche Post DHL Group in Bonn, Germany.

Jobs & Careers at Deutsche Post and DHL: https://www.dpdhl.com/career

Links:

Project Aware https://www.projectaware.org/

Scuba Junkie Malaysia blog https://bit.ly/2tjbDdZ