WattEV, one of many nation’s main commercial-truck charging infrastructure builders, has opened the USA’s largest charging station of its sort for electrical heavy-duty vehicles on the Port of Lengthy Seashore.
At a grand opening ceremony July 24 attended by key trade, authorities and environmental companions and stakeholders, WattEV co-founder and CEO Salim Youssefzadeh credited all of them for a way shortly the depot got here on-line.
“There was an amazing quantity of effort that went into getting this web site operational inside 14 months,” mentioned Youssefzadeh.
“WattEV has been engaged on opening 4 depots in California for the previous few years. The Lengthy Seashore depot was truly the final of the 4 to go underneath contract and into growth, however it’s the primary to open!”
Branded merely as “WattEV,” the depot is positioned instantly adjoining to the Pier-A terminal within the Port of Lengthy Seashore (POLB) and can serve heavy-duty electrical vehicles with routes connecting to inland locations all through Southern California.
“We’re right here to have a good time the accomplishment of WattEV’s energization of 13 chargers—the biggest public heavy-duty charging depot within the nation,” mentioned Commissioner Patty Monahan of the California Power Fee.
Liane Randolph, chair of the California Air Sources Board, added: “I’m so pleased with the public-private partnership that this undertaking represents. This can be a main milestone to that zero-emission future we’re constructing.”
The positioning options 13 dual-cord CCS 360KW chargers with the power to cost 26 vehicles concurrently with 5MW of energy supplied by Southern California Edison (SCE).
“We additionally plan so as to add megawatt charging at this depot which permits pass-through vehicles to be charged in 20 minutes,” Youssefzadeh mentioned.
Additionally delivering remarks on the WattEV grand opening had been U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Lengthy Seashore; Port of Lengthy Seashore board President Sharon Weismann; and Katy Sloan of SCE, amongst others.
The POLB undertaking is the primary of a number of WattEV electrical truck charging depots within the works all through California, together with warehouse districts in close by Gardena, inland close to San Bernardino, and north in Bakersfield. The WattEV POLB Depot will function the southern anchor of WattEV’s deliberate electric-truck charging freight hall, which can incrementally hook up with main freight routes all through the West.
The brand new charging depot will serve WattEV’s rising fleet of electrical vehicles working on its Truck-as-a-Service platform, hauling freight to and from the mixed ports of Lengthy Seashore and Los Angeles, which obtain some 40 % of the nation’s containerized imports.
The depot’s CCS system is the present charging normal for heavy-duty electrical vehicles, whereas the brand new MCS normal for sooner charging techniques is being finalized.
When vehicles with megawatt charging functionality turn out to be obtainable, extra pass-through e-truck bays are deliberate on the POLB charging plaza, that includes the sooner, higher-power Megawatt Charging System (MCS), rated for charging at as much as 1.2 megawatts.
Jul 31, 2023