Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

Electrifying heavy-duty trucks is essential if we’re to fight climate change and air pollution, but the pace of the transition has been painfully slow—many, many pilots, but few truly large-scale orders. As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck.

Long Beach 52

Long Beach Market Charging Oakland 52

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

But the time and cost of installing the needed charging infrastructure for electric trucks can vary enormously: “from a few thousand dollars for lower-power chargers to millions of dollars for high-power chargers” that can deliver up to 1 megawatt each. The cost equation is trickier. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022.

Volvo 131

Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. But then they did something interesting.

Fleet 52

Fleet Portland Charging Building 52