Electric Truck Charging Stations Needed to Meet California’s Ambitious ZEV Targets By Jon LeSage Long Beach, California (ZeroRig.com) – California’s Advanced Clean Fleets regulation presents major challenges and opportunities for fleets and companies providing the needed fleet electric truck charging stations. Trucking officials have been worried that the goals are unattainable given the current reality faced by fleet…

Long Beach, California (ZeroRig.com) –  Today in Long Beach California the nation’s largest public electric truck charging station held its grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony. The station is owned by WattEV, a growing infrastructure and Trucks as a Service (TaaS) company, and operations are set to begin immediately. WattEV’s ribbon cutting ceremony on July…

Bakersfield, California (ZeroRig.com) – WattEV joined forces with the Central California Asthma Collaborative on July 5th at an event hosted at WattEV’s Bakersfield location.  WattEV’s Bakersfield charing depot will act to provide electric truck charging and a service branch for their truck-as-a-service (TaaS) truck leasing business. WattEV’s CEO’s Vision for the Future WattEV’s CEO Salim Youssefzadeh…

Livermore, California (ZeroRig.com) – Plans for large truck charging stations are increasing in size and frequency ever since the State of California passed their Advanced Clean Fleets rule, which will require all fleets to operate zero-emission vehicles by 2036. Forum Mobility’s new station will be able to support 96 simultaneously charging heavy-duty trucks and offer…

Get Ready To Apply for California State Funding for Clean Energy and EV Adoption Projects $183M has become available for businesses transitioning to clean energy A revolutionary sum of $183M, provided by the California Energy Commission, was just announced by EnergIIZE Commercial Vehicles for clean energy and electric vehicle incentive projects over the next several…

Attention Fleets: Registration is still open for the Fresno’s Zero Emission Trucks Showcase and Ride and Drive California Air Resources Board (CARB) and CALSTART are hosting a Zero-Emission Truck and Off-Road Equipment Showcase + Ride & Drive on June 21, 2023, at the Save Mart Center in Fresno, CA. You still have time to register…

Lightning eMotors Announces Production Launch of Next-Gen Lightning ZEV4™ Work Trucks Lightning’s GM-based platform allows the production of highly customized all-electric work trucks Production launch of next-gen Lightning ZEV4 offers multiple vehicle types built on a proven platform LOVELAND, Colo., June 15, 2023 – Lightning eMotors (NYSE: ZEV), a leading provider of zero-emission, medium-duty commercial…

Sacramento, California (ZeroRig) – In a landmark move against pollution and in favor of clean energy, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has unanimously approved the Advanced Clean Fleets rule, setting a 2036 deadline for all new medium and heavy-duty vehicles sold or registered in California to be zero-emission.  This regulation works alongside CARB’s 2020…

El Monte, California – Schneider held a ribbon cutting event for their part of the JETSI project’s 100 battery-electric Class 8 truck deployment.  Scheider showcased the deployment of 50 zero-emission Freightliner eCascadia trucks and 16 350-kW chargers obtained through the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI) project.  Schneider will have nearly 100 eCascadias in their fleet by…

The Vehicle Interoperability Testing Symposium (VOLTS), organized by CharIN and sponsored by the California Energy Commission, will support EV charging interoperability.