California Energy Commission

Forum Mobility adding electric truck charging depot to Long Beach port

A growing number of planned electric truck charging depots in and around the Port of Long Beach in California is barely scratching the surface of the expected need to keep battery-electric trucks moving to match the uptime efficiency of diesel trucks.

Forum Mobility on Thursday announced a 9-megawatt facility adjacent to the Long Beach Container Terminal. When energized in the third quarter of 2024, the facility will be able to charge more than 200 trucks a day. Forum is part of a $400 million...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/forum-mobility-adding-electric-truck-charging-depot-to-long-beach-port

Real estate investors surge into electric truck charging

Somewhere around the middle of the Netflix movie “The Founder,” actor Michael Keaton’s Ray Kroc character is told that his franchise success turns on real estate, not flipping hamburgers.

The same could be said of the nascent electric truck charging business. Every electric charging depot needs land. As part of a multiprong strategy, the biggest real estate developers and a host of well-funded startups are gobbling up acreage for future sites.

The opportunity is enormous. The California Energy...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/real-estate-investors-surge-into-electric-truck-charging

Port of Humboldt Bay to get $10.5 million in offshore wind upgrades

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has approved a $10.5 million grant for renovations at the Port of Humboldt Bay in Eureka, Calif.

The upgrades will support offshore wind activities in an area designated for development on the north coast. Once renovated, the new Humboldt Bay Offshore Wind Heavy Lift Marine Terminal will be capable of handling large heavy cargo vessels, offshore wind floating platform development and integration and decommissioning, and other maritime activities.

The...

https://www.marinelog.com/offshore/offshore-wind/port-of-humboldt-bay-to-get-10-5-million-in-offshore-wind-upgrades/

Electric truck charging: Can infrastructure keep pace with demand?

Boosted by billions of dollars for electrification, the rapidly advancing market for battery-powered commercial trucks will soon learn whether there is enough juice to begin scaling a transformation from diesel to zero tailpipe emission electric transport.

It doesn’t look good.

“We’ve got to worry about supply and demand, and we’ve got to make sure that all these things come together, and that means like now. The race is on right now,” Britta Gross, managing director of the Carbon Free Mobility...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-truck-charging-can-infrastructure-keep-pace-with-demand

ACT Expo: California subsidies make battery-electric trucks a sweet fleet deal

LONG BEACH, Calif. — Schneider National Inc. liked its experience with one Freightliner eCascadia so much that it has ordered 50 of the battery-electric trucks, the biggest single purchase of the zero-tailpipe-emission tractors to date.

The Green Bay, Wisconsin-based for-hire carrier is getting a sweet deal.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) are paying most of the $27 million cost of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI). Announced...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/act-expo-california-subsidies-make-battery-electric-trucks-a-sweet-fleet-deal

Truck Talk: Trash talking edition

This week, we’re talking trash. Not what’s in it, but what moves it. The frequent stop-and-go operation of garbage trucks make them ideal for electrification. So why aren’t they being adopted more quickly?

Waste not

Is there a better vehicle candidate for electrification than the unlovable garbage truck?

They start and stop for a living. Regenerative braking captures energy to put it back into the battery. Garbage is still going to be smelly. But take away the diesel fumes spewing from the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-talk-trash-talking-edition

Among Piers: Military cargo deployed from JAXPORT

JAXPORT

“The most challenging part of a deployment operation is ensuring the synchronization of all of the elements. It is not a one-person show, it’s a team effort,” said Army Lt. Col. Altwan Whitfield, commander of the 841st Transportation Battalion.

The Jacksonville Port Authority was part of a recent team effort, serving as the first of three U.S. ports to participate in a large-scale deployment of military cargo. The JAXPORT operations took place at the Florida port’s Blount Island Marine...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/among-piers-military-cargo-deployed-from-jaxport