SMUD accelerates fleet electrification with 5 all-electric medium-duty work trucks
SMUD, the US’ sixth-largest, community-owned, not-for-profit electric service provider, has partnered with Zeus Electric Chassis, Inc. and the California Mobility Center (CMC) to buy five custom, all-electric work trucks as it works to transition to an all-electric fleet.
The trucks are the only all-electric work truck chassis manufactured in North America in the medium-duty class and will be customized for a variety of uses throughout SMUD’s service territory.
SMUD, which has invested in fleet electrification for more than 10 years, has a total of 950 assets in its fleet consisting of sedans, service trucks, bucket trucks, trailers, cable pullers and other construction equipment.
Biden Wants American-Built, All-EV Federal Fleet
Oh, and he wants them to be built in America.
âThe federal government also owns an enormous fleet of vehicles which we are going to replace with clean electric vehicles, made right here in America by American workers, creating a million auto-worker jobs, and clean energy, and vehicles that are net-zero emissions,â Biden said Monday. âTogether this will be the largest mobilization of public investment in procurement, infrastructure, and R&D since World War II.â
Thereâs more. Biden wants to raise the content threshold needed to make a vehicle for the feds to 50 percent. And there will be a cross-agency review of domestic preferences when it comes to federal purchasing, according to
Public EV charging is a problem. Bidenâs presidency could change that.
More chargers please!
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California is the most electrified state when it comes to cars: It accounts for up to half of all U.S. electric vehicles sales. But even with Teslas, Nissan Leafs, and Chevy Bolts all over the place, it s not always easy to find a public charging station without a line, especially when driving long distances throughout California. That doesn t bode well for other states like Maryland, Colorado, and Oklahoma, which are all trying to encourage more EV sales.
Now that President Biden is in office, we ll see if his plans to accelerate EV adoption mean the supporting infrastructure (like public charging stations and more fast-charging connections for 30-minute fill-ups ) will actually come to fruition. The plan outlines 500,000 new EV plugs across the U.S by the end of this decade. But even in an EV-friendly state like California, with nearly 800,000 plug-in EVs a
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A Chevrolet Volt hybrid car charging at a ChargePoint charging station at a parking garage in Los Angeles in 2018. Colorado Springs Utilities is considering building and operating more charging stations in Colorado Springs because the number of electric vehicles on the road is set to spike in the next few years.
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