Nation's Largest Electric Commercial Truck Charging Depot Opens in California

WattEV, a developer of commercial truck charging infrastructure, this week opened the country's largest of its kind charging station for electric heavy-duty trucks at the Port of Long Beach. The site features 13 dual-cord CCS 360KW chargers with the ability to charge 26 trucks concurrently with 5MW of power provided by Southern California Edison (SCE). It is located directly adjacent to the Pier-A terminal in the Port of Long Beach (POLB) and will serve heavy-duty electric trucks with routes connecting to inland destinations throughout Southern California. The POLB project is the first of several WattEV electric truck charging depots in the works throughout California, including warehouse districts in nearby Gardena, inland near San Bernardino, and north in Bakersfield. The WattEV POLB Depot will serve as the southern anchor of WattEV's planned electric-truck charging freight corridor, which will incrementally connect to major freight routes throughout the West.

"There was a tremendous amount of effort that went into getting this site operational within 14 months," said WattEV CEO Salim Youssefzade. "WattEV has been working on opening four depots in California for the past few years. The Long Beach depot was actually the last of the four to go under contract and into development, but it's the first to open."

"We also plan to add megawatt charging at this depot which allows pass-through trucks to be charged in 20 minutes," Youssefzadeh said.