Drayage Services To Or From Ports

"The trucks may work great, but if they can’t get any fuel they can’t operate."Last month, the California Air Resources Board announced $41 million in grants to the port toward building 10 new hydrogen fuel-cell electric trucks to be developed by Toyota and Paccar Inc unit Kenworth. The grant will also partly-fund two new hydrogen fuel stations to be built by Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Most manufacturers see short-haul routes such as drayage services to or from ports or rail yards as likely first adopters of electric or hydrogen trucks."We think the first applications are going to be a shorter haul," said Denny Mooney, Navistar International Corp’s vice president of engineering.

"We’re going to start out where the business makes sense."Tesla customers like Deutsche Post unit DHL, which has ordered 10 Semis, say they could save tens of thousands of dollars on maintenance and fuel annually.CEO Musk says the Semi’s range could hit 600 miles. But a spokesperson said running China AAA/AM4 Suppliers uphill with air conditioning on or running other appliances would cut that range. Many modern 18-wheelers contain televisions, fridges and other appliances.Package delivery giant UPS has pre-ordered 125 Tesla Semis and will use them on daily routes hauling packages between hubs and on UPS Freight routes between businesses - mostly shorter routes.

"In many ways, we are ideally suited to be an early adopter of this technology because we don’t have much long-haul business," said UPS spokesman Glenn Zaccara.Tesla is working with potential customers including UPS, Pepsico and Anheuser-Busch to build charging stations at their facilities.Nikola Motor Co, a startup offering a fuel cell truck, has ambitious multibillion-dollar plans to build 700 US hydrogen fueling stations over the next decade, starting along the major routes of Anheuser-Busch, which has ordered up to 800 trucks, says CEO Trevor Milton. Nikola has secured funding for those stations, he said.(Source).