Electric Island

A startup’s big bet on a Southwest electric truck corridor

Neha Palmer helped Google build data centers that operate on 100% renewable energy. Don’t bet against TeraWatt Infrastructure, the startup Palmer co-founded, doing the same thing on a four-state electric truck charging corridor along Interstate 10 in the American Southwest.

The corridors are coming

Startup TeraWatt’s announcement Thursday of a Long Beach, California, to El Paso, Texas, corridor of high-speed charging stations for electric trucks will cost hundreds of millions. With $1 billion in...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/a-startups-big-bet-on-a-southwest-electric-truck-corridor

Daimler Truck, BlackRock and NextEra Energy’s $650M bet on electric infrastructure

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), BlackRock Renewable Power and NextEra Energy Resources plan a $650 million joint venture to build charging infrastructure for electric and hydrogen fuel cell medium- and heavy-duty trucks, addressing a barrier to widespread adoption.

The new charging stations and hydrogen filling outlets are intended for commercial trucking, which is underserved in a transition to renewable energy that has seen public charging focused on cars and light trucks that require less...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/daimler-truck-blackrock-and-nextera-energys-650m-bet-on-electric-infrastructure

Truck-focused Electric Island charging site opens in Portland, Oregon

Daimler Trucks North America (DTNA) and Portland General Electric (PGE) opened their Electric Island charging project near the truck maker’s Oregon headquarters Wednesday. It is part of a larger three-state electrification effort catering to battery-powered trucks.

The manufacturer of Freightliner and Western Star trucks, DTNA and the utility are trying to learn about zero-emission heavy-duty truck charging from tank to wheel by:

  • Using Megawatt Charging System (MCS) prototype chargers that...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/truck-focused-electric-island-charging-site-opens-in-portland-oregon