TIP, a market leader in providing transportation and logistics customers with leasing, rental and value-added equipment services, is accelerating its move towards decarbonised refrigerated transportation in the UK with its latest trial of zero emission ‘e-reefer’ temperature-controlled trailer technology.
The technology used in the trial enables the trailer’s refrigeration unit to be powered using energy that is recovered by an ‘e-axle’ during braking or driving downhill and that is subsequently stored in a high voltage battery. The unit’s energy management system is then said to provide power from the battery to the refrigeration unit ‘intelligently’ by engaging the system’s generators when it is most efficient to do so.
The AxlePower energy recovery system and e-Power axle have been developed in collaboration with leading transport temperature control solution provider Thermo King and leading axle and suspension system provider BPW respectively – and the solution has already undergone rigorous field testing.
The trial sees a brand-new TIP e-reefer refrigerated trailer go into real life operation in the cold chain sector. A number of its customers will have the opportunity to experience the new technology and better understand if the solution meets their operational and business needs.
