The corridor in numbers
- Sydney to Melbourne via the Hume
- 840 km
- Trucks per day on the busiest sections
- 4,800+
- Diesel burned on the corridor daily
- 1.5m litres
- Freight moved along the corridor yearly
- 20m tonnes
What HumeZero is
A coalition of shippers, carriers, infrastructure operators and government working to make electric freight viable on the Hume Highway. The corridor was recognised as a Global Green Road Corridor at COP30 in Belém, November 2025. We work with the Drive to Zero programme, with CALSTART as international secretariat.
Why it hasn't happened yet
Range, charging, energy supply, driver rules and freight economics all have to work at once, and today they don't. Solving the corridor means solving them together, in sequence, with committed volume behind each step.
Corridor activity
What's already happening on the Hume.
Electric trucks are already running on Australia's busiest corridor. Here's who's doing it.
- Truck:
- Windrose EV prime mover
- Config:
- [TBC]
- Payload:
- [TBC]
- Date:
- June 2026
[One-line result TBC]
Source: [TBC]
- Truck:
- Windrose EV prime mover (700 kWh)
- Config:
- Semi-trailer
- Route:
- 460km end-to-end
- Date:
- March 2026
84% lower energy cost than diesel and 25 minutes faster, holding full speed on the Goulburn climbs where diesels slow.
Source: newenergy.com.au
- Truck:
- Windrose EV prime mover
- Config:
- B-double
- Payload:
- ~52t GCM
- Date:
- Late 2025
Completed Albury to Melbourne at 100 km/h average. Arrived with 22% SoC remaining.
Source: primemovermag.com.au
Have you completed a trial on or near the Hume? We want to feature it.
Email trials@humezero.orgWhat we're asking for
Infrastructure follows committed volume.
A stated intention to move freight electrically, even one lane, even a partial share, is what lets carriers and infrastructure invest ahead of you. We're asking for volume, not cheques.
Electric trucks are cheaper ordered together and easier to finance leased against committed freight. No single operator should carry the transition risk alone.
Charging depots, grid connections and land along the route only pencil out against known volume. Tell us what you'd build, and where, if the volume were there.
Two states and the Commonwealth need one timetable for grid, land, permits and standards. Coordination unlocks more here than capital does.
Register interest
Tell us what you can bring.
Ship freight, run trucks, build infrastructure, or work in government: tell us who you are and what you could commit. We'll come back to you directly.