electric truck charging

Prologis, Maersk launch heavy-truck charging hub near SoCal ports

Logistics real estate investment trust Prologis announced the opening of Southern California’s largest electric charging depot for heavy-duty trucks through a partnership with Performance Team, a warehousing and distribution subsidiary of Maersk.

The station is located near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. With nine megawatts of capacity, the depot can charge up to 96 heavy-duty trucks at the same time.  

The facility was built in just five months and boasts the nation’s biggest electric...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/prologis-maersk-launch-heavy-truck-charging-hub-near-socal-ports

Republicans attempt rollback of electric truck rule

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s recent final rule setting new carbon emissions standards for truck makers could be overturned if Republicans in Congress get their way.

Senate and House Republicans on Wednesday introduced a resolution of disapproval of the Environmental Protection agency’s Phase 3 greenhouse gas emissions rule for heavy-duty trucks.

Co-authored by Sen. Dan Sullivan of Alaska and Rep. Russ Fulcher of Idaho, the resolution invokes the Congressional Review Act (CRA), a legal...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/republicans-attempt-rollback-of-electric-truck-rule

Biden’s electric truck effort grilled on Capitol Hill

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers officially kicked off efforts to mitigate — if not derail — the Biden administration’s latest push to electrify the trucking industry during a hearing on Capitol Hill designed to spotlight challenges to powering up an electric grid capable of meeting the zero-emission timeline unveiled by federal regulators in late March.

The hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s highway subcommittee on Tuesday prefaced a Congressional Review Act joint...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/bidens-electric-truck-effort-grilled-on-capitol-hill

Switcheroo: EV Realty secures electricity before launching charging sites

Startups, real estate giants and others developing electric truck charging sites tend to pick locations before being certain they can get electricity in a timely fashion. Startup EV Realty prioritizes having the juice available when it buys a property.

‘Buying by the acre and monetizing by the megawatt’

Patrick Sullivan is like a lot of his peers developing electric infrastructure for fleet charging. He knows how the electric power business works, what it takes to develop and what can frustrate...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/switcheroo-ev-realty-secures-electricity-before-launching-charging-sites

Biden administration acknowledges ‘challenge’ with new truck emissions rule

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration acknowledged that its aggressive push to decarbonize trucking will be costly — but that the federal government will be here to help.

“The overarching challenge is aligning the market-driven desire from fleets to adopt zero-emission freight vehicles with the resources required to make it successful, and right now, they cost more,” said Gabe Klein, executive director of the U.S. Joint Office of Energy and Transportation.

Speaking to NPR before the release on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/biden-administration-acknowledges-challenge-with-new-truck-emissions-rule

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

Capitol Hill panel debates truck speed limiters, broker fraud

WASHINGTON — At a Capitol Hill hearing on regulations that keep the trucking industry from efficiently moving the nation’s freight, owner-operator representatives testified that the biggest impediment may be a speed limiter regulation yet to be rolled out.

“All kinds of studies show that when all traffic flows at the same speed, it’s much safer for everyone,” Lewie Pugh, executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, told the highway subcommittee of the House...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/capitol-hill-panel-debates-truck-speed-limiters-broker-fraud

Loaded and Rolling: Trailer pools’ hedge rate declines; electric truck infrastructure interview

Trailer pools as a hedge against contract rate declines
A row of trailers at a trailer pool(Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)

While digging through earnings reports and CEO comments, I found a few very interesting quotes on how enterprise carriers utilize trailer pools as a form of hedging against drastic contract rate reductions. Not only is this strategy useful for the carrier to avoid the often two-plus hours of waiting for a live load/unload appointment, but it frequently gives shippers flexibility to load equipment at their...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/loaded-and-rolling-trailer-pools-hedge-rate-declines-electric-truck-infrastructure-interview

UPS: Feds must help fund electric last-mile delivery

Last-mile delivery and the electric vehicles it will take to fuel it will require a jump start from public money that should be included in the next infrastructure package, according to parcel delivery giant UPS (NYSE: UPS).

Speaking on a panel hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday, Thomas Jensen, the company’s senior government relations executive, pointed out that while electrification has been touted extensively by the Biden administration, there have been few details on how the...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ups-feds-must-help-fund-electric-last-mile-delivery

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