Shared Charging Sites: Accelerating the ZEV Market and Delivering Public Benefits By Michael Joseph November 2024
A New Business Model to Scale Charging Availability With the public and private sectors working in tandem to decarbonize freight transportation nationwide and achieve the high-impact emissions reductions necessary for Shared meaningful climate action, charging infrastructure must be Charging Sites widely available and built out rapidly to ensure fleets can successfully operate their newly adopted battery-electric are open to more trucks (BETs). Ambitious new ventures in charging than one fleet. infrastructure development are securing the resources and expertise to deliver infrastructure to fleets, assist utilities, support government coordination, and make possible compliance with regulations directed at increasing the number of BETs on American roads. With dedicated procurement of equipment at scale—and creative engineering capabilities that are catalyzing innovative deployment strategies, effective site configurations, efficient system architectures, and advances in new software and energy management solutions—charging site developers can drastically cut down lead times for deploying high-capacity sites. These sites are engines for enabling the rapid development and scaled-up rates of charging asset availability, which governments must have in supply to reach emissions-reduction targets. In addition, these sites bring clean jobs, improved public health, and local tax benefits to disadvantaged communities, which have been disproportionately affected by transportation-driven greenhouse gas emissions and boxed out of the clean transportation revolution. Today, there are billions of combined dollars in federal, state, utility, and local funding programs in place to support these projects.
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