Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making Seminars


MICHAEL ROETH

Executive Director, NACFE
Operations Leader, Carbon War Room

Annual Fleet Fuel Study

Mike leads the North American Council for Freight Efficiency which is an unbiased, non-profit, that drives the acceleration of freight efficiency technologies.  The goal is to double the efficiency of goods movement and their focus is first on over the road tractor trailers.  Mike will share results of their Annual Fleet Fuel Study which utilizes fleet data to document adoption curves of 70 technologies and compares these results for past adoption to the EPA and GHGp2 forecast for those technologies.  This results in 30 years of information on technology.  Mike will also share the results of deep dive studies on the technologies, called Confidence Reports, offer thoughts on the DOE SuperTruck programs, the likely pathway of autonomous trucks and their payback and attempt to answer questions on other freight efficiency topics.

Bio

Mike has worked in the commercial vehicle industry for over 30 years, is the Executive Director of the North American Council for Freight Efficiency and leads the Trucking Efficiency Operations for the Carbon War Room.  Mike’s specialty is brokering green truck collaborative technologies into the real world at scale.  He has a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from the Ohio State University and a Masters in Organizational Leadership from the Indiana Institute of Technology.  Mike served as Chairman of the Board for the Truck Manufacturers Association, Board member of the Automotive Industry Action Group.  He currently serves on the second National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technologies and Approaches for Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles and is a Department of Energy Merit Reviewer for the SuperTruck programs. He understands the customers, operations and intricacies of the commercial vehicle industry having held various positions in product development, engineering, reliability, quality, sales, materials and plant management with Navistar and Behr/Cummins.
 

20 Jan 2017
12:00pm 
EDT

BPH 129
Carnegie Mellon University
Lunch will be served at 11:45am. Seminar is presented under the auspices of CEDM and the department of Engineering and Public Policy.
RSVP to Attend
Please RSVP by Thursday, January 19 at 12:00pm.
 
Please note that there will not be a BlueJeans connection for this meeting.

Meeting Scheduling

If you would like to meet individually with Mike Roeth during his visit on January 20, please email Elisabeth Bass Udyawar with your availability for that day by Wednesday, January 18. She can be reached at ebass@cmu.edu
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