Baua Electric

JANUARY 16, 2024

As Alan Adler writes in a recent FreightWaves article, 2023 was not the long-awaited Year of the Electric Truck. Forum Mobility supplied four electric trucks and EVSE to Hight Logistics in Long Beach in 2023, and plans to open a depot with 90 truck charging points near the Port of Oakland this year.

Long Beach 52

Long Beach Market Charging Oakland 52

Charged EVs

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Some makers suggest hydrogen fuel cells will be the way to go; the most promising application seems to be long-haul trucking with few or no stops. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. But today, heavy trucks remain a diesel world. That’s about to change. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

Volvo 131

Volvo Fleet Electric Electrical 131

Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

And then there’s interoperability and all those standards that we take for granted in the 12- and 24-volt world. 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. They don’t really exist in the 800-volt world.

Standards 73

Standards Market Volt Vehicles 73