Smart Freight Centre, a global nonprofit organization focused on climate action in the freight sector, has launched a shipper-carrier coalition to accelerate heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) deployment.
The coalition consists of some of the world’s largest shippers and carriers, including AIT Worldwide Logistics, DB Schenker, Maersk, Microsoft and PepsiCo, who will test long-haul heavy-duty battery-electric vehicle operations along the Interstate 10 corridor between Los Angeles and El Paso.
Terawatt Infrastructure will serve as the strategic charging solutions partner for the project, providing infrastructure including software, operations and maintenance support at six of its owned charging hubs along the I-10 corridor.
Through this collaboration under Smart Freight Centre, the coalition seeks to demonstrate the possibilities for fleet emissions reduction while accelerating long-haul EV deployment and cost parity.
“Truck electrification is one of the