The JETSI project is a landmark initiative that will deploy 100 Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) across Southern California to demonstrate strategies to successfully scale market penetration of zero emission technologies.
The JETSI project was honored with a California Air Quality Award by the Coalition for Clean Air at the annual awards ceremony hosted on June 14, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. This prestigious award recognizes the project’s significant contribution to reducing emissions in Southern California’s commercial transportation sector.
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Los Angeles Daily News | In February, an event showcased a trucking company’s Ontario-based fleet of electric-powered drayage trucks, funded in part by a state government and pollution-fighting public agencies. NFI’s trucks are expected to offset 4,400 metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year.
New York Times | JETSI Project partner, NFI, had VP, Jessica Cordero, sit down with the New York Times to discuss NFI navigating BET deployments following California’s removal of drayage regulations.
Clean Technica | Resiliency, along with charging costs, was a motivation behind freight operator NFI Industries’ decision to install a 1 megawatt solar array and 7 megawatt-hours of batteries at its Ontario, California, warehouse. That microgrid, set to be turned on later this year, will help supplement grid power for the 50 Volvo and Daimler electric big rigs that will be charging at the site. NFI was lucky enough to have ample capacity from Southern California Edison’s grid for its Ontario site.
Canary Media | As California’s utilities struggle to meet fast-growing demand for charging capacity to support the state’s aggressive clean-trucks mandates, pressure is growing to find solutions. State regulators are working on policies to speed up grid buildouts, but the trucking and charging industries fear that this regulatory push won’t move quickly enough to meet their short-term needs.
JETSI project partners are collaborating to help the freight logistics industry move beyond small pilot projects for Class 8 BETs and demonstrate how they can be deployed successfully at scale.
JETSI is jointly financed by California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission ($26.98 million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4 million), with an additional $21.7 million from Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison, NFI, and Schneider. JETSI is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities.
