Electric vehicle charging services provider Amply Power unveiled a semi-permanent yet portable charging solution called Inrush on Friday. Inrush uses repurposed shipping containers to hold multiple EV charging stations.
Located in Disney’s Toy Story parking lot in Anaheim, California, Anaheim Transportation Network is the first Inrush customer. The project will consist of two shipping containers, each housing five charging stations, allowing 10 electric buses to charge at once. Two 200kW...
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Ten Class 8 Peterbilt Model 579EVs running drayage in the Port of Oakland illustratrate two facts of heavy-duty electrification:
Shippers Transport Express (STE) has both working for it in a three-month demonstration.
“With the recent completion of the charging infrastructure at the Port of Oakland, right now is the perfect time to put our 10 Peterbilt Model 579EVs into service and...
Building corridors of fast-charging stations along heavily trafficked routes and between major cities is the first step to increase electric vehicle adoption, Mike Calise, Tritium’s president of the Americas, told FreightWaves.
People and companies are still dealing with range anxiety, and the more public chargers there are near routine routes around cities, the more they will feel comfortable that a charger will be available when they need it.
EV charger provider Tritium partnered with Baltimore...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/will-marylands-expanded-ev-charging-network-fuel-fleet-adoption
Samsara and EVgo (Nasdaq: EVGO) announced Tuesday a partnership aimed at supporting companies deploying, managing, charging and maintaining electric vehicles.
The partnership gives Samsara’s commercial fleet customers access to EVgo’s network of 800 fast charging stations across the U.S. EVgo is also the first EV partner on Samsara’s Experts Marketplace, a network of certified implementation experts.
“The transportation market is electrifying at a rapid pace. Electric vehicles provide an...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/samsara-and-evgo-partner-to-push-for-more-commercial-evs
Shell and Deloitte have released a joint report outlining a 10-year road map to decarbonize road freight using 22 strategic solutions.
The report, “Decarbonising Road Freight: Getting into Gear,” addresses economic, technical, regulatory and organizational factors as well as barriers to road freight decarbonization based on region.
A total of 158 CEOs, executives, logistic experts, sustainability experts, strategists and policy and regulation specialists representing 123 organizations across...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/shell-decarbonization-report-getting-into-gear
Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and Portland General Electric (NYSE: POR) are creating an Electric Island for commercial truck charging that will include fast charging of greater than 1 megawatt by the spring of 2021.
The development on Swan Island near DTNA’s headquarters in Portland, Oregon, is expected to be the first of its kind in the United States. The 50-50 joint venture site is under construction. Neither DTNA nor PGE revealed the cost of the project.
The greenhouse gas emissions-free...
Lisa Mullings uniquely understands truckstop and travel plaza owners. After selling the family home in 2014, Mullings and her family traveled 40,000 miles in a 30-foot Airstream trailer, meeting hundreds of NATSO members along the way.
“In addition to talking to our members, we got to talk to a lot of professional drivers as well,” Mullings told FreightWaves in an interview. “We have a much bigger appreciation for how hard it is for drivers on the highway. Car drivers don’t realize how difficult...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/8-questions-on-truck-stop-issues-with-natso-ceo-lisa-mullings
