Schneider Battery-Electric Truck Ribbon Cutting Event
6/13/2023
6/13/2023
Schneider – a premier multimodal provider of transportation, intermodal, and logistics services, and JETSI project partner – hosted a ribbon cutting event on June 7th to celebrate the scaled deployment of battery-electric trucks and charging infrastructure Schneider will have nearly 100 Freightliner eCascadias operating from its South El Monte facility in Southern California by year’s end, including 50 that were funded through the JETSI project. The site features 16 350 kW dual-corded dispensers to allow Schneider to charge 32 trucks simultaneously
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.