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

From the report: “The federal government and some states offer dedicated grant programs for BEVs and related infrastructure, but the funding currently available isn’t sufficient to support widescale market deployment. This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. The cost equation is trickier. 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