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.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
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.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 21, 2022
This article appeared in Issue 62: Oct-Dec 2022. The cost equation is trickier. Today, battery-electric Class 8 tractors still have a higher lifetime cost, due entirely to the initial purchase price of a heavy-duty vehicle with a huge battery (264 kWh for the first-generation VNR Electric). Stay tuned. Subscribe here.
Charged EVs
AUGUST 2, 2023
Q&A with electric truck expert Rustam Kocher Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles make up a small fraction of the vehicles on the road, but they generate a disproportionate amount of pollution. They’ve also got a site at the Port of Long Beach and a couple others in the LA area. But then they did something interesting.
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. This article appeared in Issue 64: April-June 2023 – Subscribe now. Therefore, a lot of electric and hydrogen vehicles are being brought into that market quickly.
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