Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles will get an all-electric boost along the border.
, a busy truck stop just north of the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, just installed four fast-charging stations that will allow trucks, delivery vans, buses and other large electric vehicles, or EVs, to juice up quickly and get back on the road.
It’s the first truck stop in California to install public fast chargers for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles.The California Energy Commission put up a $200,000 grant to pay most of the costs for the four fast-charging stations to help solve, in the words of, the chicken-and-the-egg issue when it comes to transitioning from internal combustion engines to zero-emissions vehicles.
“If you have an electric truck and you have no place to refuel it, you’re not going to be able to capitalize on the lower price of electricity compared to diesel and you’re not going to be able to capitalize on the clean air benefits,” Monahan said. “So you need chargers and refueling infrastructure to feel confident if you buy an electric vehicle that you’ll have a place to recharge it.”
Each of the 250-kilowatt fast chargers can fully charge a typical medium-duty box truck from empty to 100 percent fully charged in about two hours and take a 20 percent charge to 80 percent in about an hour.“This particular site is critical site because it is an important transportation corridor and hub for our region,” said Miguel Romero, vice president of energy innovation at San Diego Gas & Electric, which put in the wires and infrastructure needed for the four fast chargers.
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