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

Baua Electric

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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NASA and Virgin Orbit 3D print, test rocket combustion chamber

Green Car Congress

NASA is partnering with Virgin Orbit of Long Beach, California, to deliver advanced engine hardware that employs NASA and commercial additive manufacturing processes. The test article delivered more than 2,000 pounds of thrust successfully in nearly two-dozen, 60-second test firings.

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Major truck OEMs form PACT to advocate for EV infrastructure development – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

WattEV opened a charging depot at the Port of Long Beach last May, and at least a dozen more charging sites are in the construction phase—but it’s true that many more will be needed.) The latest DOE data indicates that at the moment, there are only 9 public DC fast charging stations capable of serving Class 6-8 trucks in the US.

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Consumers Want Plug-in Hybrids, Industry Survey Finds

Plugs and Cars

Synovate Motoresearch presented some very interesting survey results at the Advanced Automotive Battery Conference in Long Beach, CA last week, as reported in MIT's Technology Review. Simply put, as the first sentence of the article states, [W]hen consumers understand what plug-in hybrids are, they want them.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. They’ve seen some of the pitfalls, understand the process better, and are now considering how those experiences will let them scale from one truck to, say, ten, and then more. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

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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Even Tugboats Are Going Electric

Revenge of the Electric Car

Remember the Balqon container truck I wrote about a while back, the Port of Long Beach truck that can haul 60,000 lbs and that’s starting to replace diesel spewing internal combustion trucks? The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach together constitute the largest port facility in the U.S. It’s green (and white).