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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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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. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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This project is currently at the stage of conducting grid readiness assessments.] They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. When your home was built or when the business next to you was built, they went to the utility and said, “I need a hookup to the grid.” A lot heavier.

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WattEV aims to operate 12,000 electric trucks-as-a-service and a charging network to support them by 2030

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Strategically positioned between the Central Valley and the Los Angeles megalopolis, the charging hub will feature a solar microgrid with battery storage, plus grid energy from PG&E. Charged : The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the news quite a lot these days. Salim: Absolutely.