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When a semi truck pulled into an Albertson’s supermarket in Irvine, California today to deliver groceries, it was quieter than usual and no diesel exhaust was pumping out of the back. For the first time, the grocery chain is beginning to use large, heavy-duty electric trucks.
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[Photo: Volvo Trucks]The company, the second-large grocery chain in the U.S., is testing two of Volvo’s VNR Electric trucks in Southern California. The trucks will make local deliveries and then return to a distribution center for charging, with a 150-mile range. “The range can suit that local delivery,” says Brett Pope, director of electric vehicles at Volvo Trucks North America. (Long-distance electric semi trucks are a more complicated challenge, but also in development.)
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NFI’s journey into electric truck deployment began in 2018. Now, the fleet is testing out 10 electric vehicles from Daimler at its Chino, California, facility.
The test program got off to a quick start, once NFI’s senior vice president of fleet services, Bill Bliem, and others began exploring options with OEMs. A year later, we had our first electric Daimler tractor in place, he said. They partnered with us from pitch to implementation.
It’s early in the process, but Bliem said he is pleased
with where things stand. While it’s a small dip into the zero-emissions pool, the New-Jersey-based company’s experiment is providing plenty of information for future investment.