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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

Charged EVs

A 150 kW charger may recharge a battery pack to 80 percent in about 2.5 In California, several utilities offer incentive programs to buy down the capital equipment cost for their customers, a model other states should consider emulating.”. hours, while a 250 kW unit can cut that to 1.5 The cost equation is trickier. Onward and upward.

Volvo 131
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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

Charged EVs

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. If we’re going to hit the numbers we need to hit for fleet adoption, we need as many places for those vehicles to recharge as possible.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

The program includes the installation of 10 alternative fuel refueling sites (two B20, one Electric Recharging, and seven CNG). The project includes 45 E85 and B20 stations, eight propane stations, and 132 electric vehicle recharging sites. Total DOE award: $15,000,000. Total DOE award: $12,975,388. Total DOE award: $12,633,080.

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As the off-road vehicle market rushes to electrify, standards are lagging behind

Charged EVs

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 could do three, four runs a day without a problem, without having to recharge. Shortly they’re going to eliminate the ability to buy gas mowers and stuff like that.