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.

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 2, 2023

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. Hydrogen fits all those things really well.

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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.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Charged : The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are in the news quite a lot these days. But we hear a lot of talk about hydrogen, and a lot of elected officials sound pretty keen on it. What would you say to somebody that says hydrogen is a better solution? Why do politicians seem so receptive to pitches for hydrogen?

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Charged EVs

AUGUST 4, 2023

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. Therefore, a lot of electric and hydrogen vehicles are being brought into that market quickly. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-June 2023 – Subscribe now.

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