Carrier’s Vector eCool, the First All-Electric, Engineless Refrigeration Unit, Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Environment + Energy Leader
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Carrier Transicold’s all-electric, fully autonomous Vector® eCool™ trailer refrigeration system, the was recently recognized by Environment + Energy Leader as a Top Product of the Year for 2022. Carrier Transicold is part of Carrier Global Corporation, (NYSE: CARR) the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions.
Carrier reaffirmed its commitment to reducing emissions, improving sustainability and increasing efficiency across the refrigerated transport sector with the launch of the first fully autonomous, all-electric engineless Vector eCool refrigerated trailer system in 2020. Vector eCool combines the company’s E-Drive™ all-electric technology with a new cutting-edge energy recovery and storage system. This converts kinetic energy generated by the trailer into electricity, which is then stored in a battery pack to power the refrigeration unit. This loop creates a fully autonomous system that produces no direct carbon dioxide (CO2) or particulate emissions.
The Environment + Energy Leader Awards is a program recognizing excellence in products and services that provide companies with energy and environmental benefits, and in projects implemented by companies that improved environmental or energy management and increased the bottom line. The win is an indication that the program’s expert judges consider the Vector eCool system a top example of the exemplary work being done today in the fields of energy and environmental management.
The Vector eCool system underlines Carrier Transicold’s commitment to providing solutions designed at reducing emissions, improving reliability and increasing efficiency throughout the refrigerated transport sector. The Vector eCool system is the latest example of how Carrier is working to help its customers reduce their carbon footprint by more than 1 gigaton as part of its 2030 Environmental, Social and Governance goals.
To learn more about Carrier's Vector eCool system that supports the company’s Healthy, Safe, Sustainable and Intelligent Cold Chain Program, visit Carrier.com/Refrigeration.
About Carrier Transicold
Carrier Transicold helps improve transport and shipping of temperature controlled cargoes with a complete line of equipment and services for refrigerated transport and cold chain visibility. For more than 50 years, Carrier Transicold has been an industry leader, providing customers around the world with advanced, energy-efficient and environmentally sustainable container refrigeration systems and generator sets, direct-drive and diesel truck units and trailer refrigeration systems. Carrier Transicold is a part of Carrier Global Corporation, the leading global provider of healthy, safe, sustainable and intelligent building and cold chain solutions. For more information, visit www.carrier.com/refrigeration/en/worldwide/transport-refrigeration/carrier-ecool-series/. Follow Carrier on Twitter: @SmartColdChain and on LinkedIn at Carrier Transicold Truck Trailer Refrigeration.
