California-based WattEV, which offers electric trucks as a service, announced Wednesday at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo in Anaheim, California, that their truck charging depot at the Port of Long Beach will open May 15 with capacity to charge dozens of Class 8 electric trucks.
WattEV CEO Salim Youssefzadeh said a 1.5-acre site located along Pier A Avenue will provide “13 dual port CCS [Combined Charging System], 360 kilowatt chargers with the ability to charge well over 60 trucks per day.”
Youssefzadeh added that the project was “quite an undertaking” since it took roughly 12 months to complete versus the industry average of 18 months.
Southern California Edison is providing 5 megwatts of power to the site which will be open to the public.
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