The South Coast Air Quality Management District (South Coast AQMD), a California air pollution control agency for portions of Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties, has made it its goal to deploy 100 battery-electric regional haul and drayage trucks across the state.
“We are proud to be a part of this historic initiative here in Southern California,” Gideon Kracov South Coast AQMD board member, said. “The agency has always been a leader in innovative collaborations that help advance zero-emission transportation and protect the health of our communities.”
The Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative is the largest commercial deployment of battery-electric trucks in North America. The goal is to increase the number of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks available for moving goods while achieving necessary emission reductions.
The project is on track to eliminate 8,247 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions and reduce five tons of pollutants annually along Southern California’s I-710 corridor.
I-710 sees more than twice the average Los Angeles freeway truck traffic and accounts for 20 percent of all particulate matter emissions in Southern California.
The effort is a collaboration with the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) and will be deployed through a partnership with NFI Industries and Schneider.