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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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In California, several utilities offer incentive programs to buy down the capital equipment cost for their customers, a model other states should consider emulating.”. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. The cost equation is trickier. Onward and upward. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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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. They buy to make money.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

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The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles­—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. Shortly they’re going to eliminate the ability to buy gas mowers and stuff like that. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-June 2023 – Subscribe now.