Electrify America & NFI Industries plan trucking infrastructure
The focus of the joint truck charging infrastructure project is the greater Los Angeles area in California. This is where transportation service provider NFI aims to operate more than 60 battery-electric trucks for drayage tasks at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. The trucks are to be stationed at NFI’s base in Ontario, California and transport containers between the ports and NFI’s Ontario facility.
Electrify America is supplying the NFI base with charging equipment involving DC chargers with 150 or 350 kW. A decentralised energy supply, which includes a photovoltaic system, is to be set up in order to reduce the load on the grid and to power the trucks with as much renewable energy as possible.
“As NFI continues to spearhead supply chain sustainability and minimize the industry’s environmental impact, many elements need to align to ensure we continue making progress,” said Bill Bliem, NFI’s senior vice president of fleet services. “Throughout our experience, we’ve learned that having the right partners, technology, and access to safe, reliable and fast-charging infrastructure is essential to the successful implementation of EVs.”
NFI plans to convert its entire drayage fleet at its Ontario facility to fully electric vehicles. Fifty of the 60 vehicles will be financed through the ‘JETSI’ program. The remaining ten vehicles will be Volvo VNR Electric, and the Class 8 tractors will be financed through Volvo Trucks North America and the “Switch-On” program.
The trucks hauling loads for NFI won’t be the only Volvo VNR Electric in Southern California – Volvo Trucks North America today announced that the warehousing and distribution company Performance Team has ordered a total of 16 VNR Electric – the largest electric truck order for Volvo in North America to date.
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