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The heavy-duty electric truck market could break out in 2024 – Charged EVs

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As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. California offers an array of incentive programs to help fleets defray the higher upfront costs of electric trucks. Funds are also available through the EPA and the Volkswagen Environmental Trust.

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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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They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. And they recognize that there’s a lot of small fleets that serve drayage in and of the ports of Long Beach and LA that are served by owner-operator fleets that only have a few trucks. But then they did something interesting.

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

Charged EVs

Identifying the routes for the Pony Express model is an interim problem we need to solve in order to maximize utilization of the assets and get the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) at par with diesel. Charged : The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the news quite a lot these days. Salim: Absolutely.