Title: SHELL SEM PARTNER IV 1 OFFLLINE V9
Duration: 3:14 minutes
Description:
Interview with Machteld de Haan, Vice President, Shell Lubricants Americas, discussing decarbonizing road freight and Pitch the Future.
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Pitch the Future. #MakeTheFuture #ShellEcoMarathon
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When Colin met Machteld de Haan. Shell Lubricants, decarbonizing road freight.
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Split screen showing Colin Furze on the left and Machteld de Haan on the right. The stylised cars on the track remain in the background throughout the video.
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Colin Furze, YouTuber and Inventor. Machteld de Haan, Vice President, Shell Lubricants Americas.
Colin Furze
Hello Machteld. Thank you for joining me. Do you want to introduce yourself?
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Closeup of Machteld de Haan.
Machteld de Haan
Yes, sure. Hi, Colin. My name is Machteld de Haan and I work for Shell, and I run the lubricants business in the Americas.
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Machteld de Haan
As we say, we keep the world moving.
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Colin Furze
One of the challenges is to come up with ideas to try and decarbonize road freight.
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Colin Furze
Now this is one of those things that to most people, would be like, what? Didn't expect that to be a category. How is that important, and what are we up to?
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Machteld de Haan
Probably, I'd ask you back, Colin, when was the last time you ordered something online?
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Colin Furze
Oh, it was yesterday. I mean, it turned up today. We were doing some filming earlier and the doorbell rang. You know, there's things coming to my house all the time.
Machteld de Haan
Exactly. Those things that come to your door are delivered by either a small van or a truck, maybe.
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Split screen showing Machteld de Haan on the right. As she is talking, an inset showing a white van moving along a road appears to the left. The inset with the van moves upward, revealing another one below. The lower inset shows footage shot from above of large trucks at a depot, some are parked and some are moving.
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Road freight.
Machteld de Haan
All these vans and trucks and busses and coaches together is what we call road freight transport.
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Machteld de Haan
They account for 8% of the global CO2 emissions.
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Closeup of Machteld de Haan.
Machteld de Haan
So, it's a big sector, a big part of the emissions that we want to reduce.
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Machteld de Haan
We thought it would be a great idea to get some of the brilliant students to help us think about how to do that.
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Colin Furze
What are you already doing, then? What things can we see being done at the moment?
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Split screen showing Machteld de Haan on the right. As she is talking, an inset appears on the left, which shows a montage of video. A closeup of the side of a truck with the name Starship visible. A part of a sign is shown with the words conversation #ShellStarship. A shot of a futuristic looking, streamlined truck moving along a road. A closeup of a brown liquid being poured from one container into another. Very quick sequence showing a sign on a building reading Starship Initiative, and shots from different angles of the Starship truck. An aerial shot showing the state of Florida, text above it reads Jacksonville. A yellow line leads from the middle of the state to the western edge of the map.
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The Starship.
Machteld de Haan
Probably the first one is where we collaborated with the Air Flow Truck Company, and we designed this truck called the Starship. It's fully aerodynamic, it's made of carbon fibre, it's got solar panels on the top of the truck.
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Machteld de Haan
We then put a certain load on it and we got it to drive from the west coast to the east coast in the US, and we measured the freight-ton efficiency.
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Machteld de Haan
What that means, is the combination of the load on the truck and the fuel consumption. Obviously, there's a correlation between it, and we managed to get that measure down by 250%.
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Colin Furze
What was that, the freight-ton load efficiency?
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Machteld de Haan
Freight-ton efficiency.
Colin Furze
I'll have to remember that. That's going to be a Trivial Pursuit question one day, that is, isn't it?
Machteld de Haan
Yes, exactly.
Colin Furze
So, what are you hoping to see then, from some of the Shell EcoMarathon teams? Is there anything in particular that you want them to solve?
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Closeup of Machteld de Haan.
Machteld de Haan
I mean, I've been to a couple of the Shell EcoMarathons, and I'm, every single time, so inspired with the enthusiasm, the innovation that I see. It's just amazing.
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Split screen showing Colin Furze on the left and Machteld de Haan on the right.
Machteld de Haan
There's a team from Asia that wanted the actual car to be more sustainable, and they built it completely from bamboo. Can you imagine? They got attention from a car manufacturer, as well. So, I think those things are super-exciting. I'm hoping for out-of-the-box thinking, maybe new technology, and maybe not just thinking about the actual vehicle, but maybe also something around our behaviours in driving the vehicle that could help decarbonize. Maybe we can use some digital or artificial intelligence tools for that.
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Colin Furze
It's been a pleasure. Fingers crossed, we find something, that the entries come up with something absolutely amazing. I'm sure they will.
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Colin Furze
Excellent. Thank you for your time.
Machteld de Haan
All right, cheers.
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