Terawatt opens first truck charging hub in California

Terawatt Infrastructure has announced its first medium- and heavy-duty EV charging hub has opened in Rancho Dominguez, CA. It's designed to support the electric truck fleets of companies active at the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Initial customers include PepsiCo, Dreaded Trucking, Hight Logistics and others.

The private site is shared between multiple fleets and houses 20 pull-through and bobtail DC charging stalls with a total capacity of 7MW. Terawatt states this can provide charging for up to 125 trucks per day for companies operating in and out of some of the USA’s largest container ports.

Terawatt operates its own reservation system as well as on-site charge management, parts management, and technical and customer service teams, in what it calls a ‘one vendor’ approach.

In a press release, Terawatt CEO Neha Palmer said: “This launch underscores growing collaboration between enterprises, shippers, carriers, and charging infrastructure providers to advance sustainable technologies across logistics and transportation operations, especially in the medium and heavy duty sectors. With the launch of other sites in the Terawatt network – including our upcoming Rialto, CA site in June – fleets can create ‘electric lanes’ between the ports and the Inland Empire, enabling top-up charging that increases fleets’ use of EV assets and drives a better total cost of ownership.”

Terawatt currently owns over a dozen sites along the I-10 highway corridor heading east from Los Angeles, as well as two locations in the Bay Area. In addition to the new truck charging site in Rancho Dominguez, two light-duty fleet sites are in operation in Inglewood (near LAX airport) and San Francisco. The rest are under development and set to open in the near future, including three more sites in 2025.

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