You've probably seen these pretty Amazon Electric Amazon delivery trucks in your neighborhood. Now you will go through Amazon Big Rigs Electric on the highway.
The dominant online retailer of the world deploys 50 large electric platforms in Southern California, including eight of the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Mayor of Los Angeles Bass karen And the national climate advisor of the White House, Ali Zaidi, should deceive the news from Amazon to the port of Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon.
California has established mandates for Diesel trucks spilled And replace them with lower carbon technologies in increasing number until 2035, when the sale of new diesel trucks is prohibited. The objective: get rid of greenhouse gases and other pollutants.
The state has already banned new diesel trucks in sea ports in California, although diesel trucks purchased until 2023 are authorized inside for years under certain conditions.
The batteries of large rigging tractors, manufactured by Volvo, can travel up to 275 miles before recharging, “with zero exhaust pipes,” said Amazon. Trucks will transport port shipping containers to the Amazon Freight Center to Sante Fe Springs, where containers will be unloaded and the goods shipped in distribution centers and airports, and finally to delivery stations, where vans are loaded on packages for houses and businesses.
The company will not say how much it pays the trucks. The full price currently varies from $ 300,000 to $ 500,000, compared to around $ 120,000 for a diesel truck. But California and the federal government offer large subsidies to carbon truck buyers, and Amazon is able to buy in bulk and extract a discount.
Amazon is hardly the only company that heads for large platforms with low carbon emissions. Given state mandates, there are a lot of Action of the electric van lately in and around the ports. Only one example: the Maersk shipping giant uses Global brand Electric trucks in the ports, loaded in a newly open station in Lynwood, equipped with 65 chargers provided by Voltera, based in Palo Alto.
