Forum Mobility joins a growing number of startups planning multiple megawatt charging facilities serving California drayage.
Battery-electric trucks and the infrastructure to charge them require joint development, a lesson fleets are learning from early adopters.
Just as scaling McDonald’s was more about real estate than hamburgers, electric truck charging is as much about land as it is about the grid.
Megawatt charging is too much for pretty much every electric truck save for the purpose-built Tesla Semi. But that is slowly changing.
School buses qualify for a lot of incentives to go electric, but are the vouchers and grants enough to make a difference?
The Advanced Clean Transportation Expo has grown so large that organizers kept a waiting list for exhibitors.
Truck-as-a-service startup Forum Mobility enters a $400 million joint venture to establish electric drayage truck charging sites.
From storing renewable energy stocks to tapping high-voltage transmission lines, the juice to power electric trucks has to come from somewhere.
Schneider and NFI Industries will each get 50 battery-electric Class 8 trucks, with California environmental agencies paying a big chunk of the bill.
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“Imagine a port where a ship slows down on approach to reduce emissions, plugs into the electrical grid at berth instead of burning fuel to run vital systems and is worked by zero-emissions cranes, yard vehicles and trucks. That’s our reality in Long Beach.”
