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In Scotland. For Scotland.

Transport Scotland has created a fund to help reduce freight emissions. SCALE helps you get your share.

Get your share

For fleet operators

How electric can work for you

The proposal

What SCALE can do for you

Across Scotland

Where charging could be
Is electric right for my fleet?
What SCALE would offer
Where charging could go

How SCALE can help you

SCALE shows how electric vehicles can work for you.
SCALE helps you buy the best trucks and chargers.
YOU can improve your business and your service to your customers.

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Electric vehicles for your routes

We look at your operations – your vehicles and your customers on your routes – and help you choose the best electric vehicles to do these with zero emissions.

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Charging at your depot

Back to base operations? Easy! SCALE offers a range of chargers to power your vehicles. You can choose if you open it up to other fleets to earn additional revenue.

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Charging on the road

Longer routes? SCALE will help you charge at sites across Scotland, you just book a charging slot when it suits you!

Scotland’s ambitions

88% of Scottish freight is moved by Scottish hauliers

Scotland has committed to reach net zero CO2 emissions by 2045. That means all Scottish hauliers will need to move to zero emission vehicles. SCALE will help fleets choose the right vehicles and chargers to move to electric.

A just transition for Scottish fleets

All fleets need help in moving to electric vehicles. SCALE is working to help Scottish fleets achieve all the benefits of electrification – lower operating costs, satisfied customers and zero emissions.

Greatest support for smaller hauliers

Small operators move much of Scotland’s freight – particularly in the regions. They will need the greatest support to move to electric. SCALE is working to help deliver such solutions, including shorter term vehicle contracts and temporary charging solutions.

Charging fleets can rely on

Scotland’s net zero targets require a network of chargers at key locations across Scotland. SCALE is considering where these might be and will enable operators to book guaranteed charging slots at an agreed, competitive price.

Driver in a hi-vis vest plugging an electric HGV into a high-power charger

For fleet operators

How electric can work for you

Electric vehicles can do all but the most demanding operations, and at a fraction of the cost of diesel. Let SCALE help you start your electric journey. If you’re a smaller fleet, we can help you access Transport Scotland’s Fleet Analysis Tool.

  • Will the range cover my routes?
  • Where will my trucks charge?
  • What will it cost me?
Tell us about your fleet

Across Scotland

Where charging could be

Charging is already being installed at a number of major sites but many more are being considered. From the Highlands and Islands to the west coast and the Borders and all the routes in between, hauliers will soon be able to confidently offer a national zero emissions logistics service.

Tell us where your trucks go and it will help shape the plan.

Tell us your routes
Map of Scotland showing indicative locations where charging could be

Indicative locations, not confirmed sites

Background

Moving to electric HGVs

Electric timber lorry loaded with logs at a waterside yard

Scotland’s decarbonisation story

Scotland has already started its eHGV journey

A number of electric vehicles are already in service in Scotland – in Shetland, in the forests of the Highlands and Dumfries and Galloway, and in operations across the country.

Transport Scotland hope to see many more eHGVs enter service soon, transporting many of the goods we rely on daily, delivered with zero emissions by large, medium and small fleets across the country.

eFreight 2030 livery on an electric HGV: accelerating the uptake of zero emission HGVs, funded by UK Government and Innovate UK

Proven experience from across the UK

A strong track record for going further

SCALE is brought to you by the team which delivered the UK Government’s ZEHID Zero Emissions HGV and infrastructure Demonstrator programme, eFREIGHT 2030.

This has seen 88 electric HGVs introduced, and over 200 charging bays including 21 Megawatt-capable HyperChargers installed at 43 locations across the UK. 6-bay HyperChargers are currently being installed at Bellshill and East Kilbride.

Operators already doing it

SME hauliers are already making electric work.

eHGVS aren’t just for the largest fleets. Two English SME operators who have made the switch are keen to share their stories with Scottish operators.

Electric HGV parked beside two high-power chargers at a depot

Welch’s Transport, Cambridgeshire

“The hardest truck to electrify is the first!”

A fourth-generation family haulier with two depots and 65 vehicles in Cambridgeshire, Welch’s started with one electric rigid on local routes. By the end of 2026 they will be running 8 electric artics and rigids. They credit their move to electric as being an important part of a 30% uplift in their business over the past two years.

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Darcica Logistics electric rigid HGV with zero emission pallet deliveries livery on a street in Oxford
Darcica Logistics, Bicester

“All our electric vehicles are working well and making a difference for the future.”

Darcica always wanted to go electric, but the sums didn’t work for HGVs until 2024. Through a manufacturer programme and government grants, the cost of an electric truck came close to that of a new diesel one, making it possible for them to begin the move to eHGVs.

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Contact

Run trucks in Scotland? Let’s talk.

I’m Fraser Maxwell and I’m the SCALE Programme Delivery Manager. Tell me more about your fleet and your customers and I’ll tell you how SCALE can help you understand how to electrify your vehicles and access the Government support available to do so. There’s no commitment, if we don’t think electric can work for you, we’ll say so!