Greenlane announced it is establishing a second commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging corridor, this one connecting Southern California to Phoenix via Interstate 10. This comes as the company recently launched its flagship charging center in Colton, Calif., situated next to San Bernardino, in the heart of California\u2019s Inland Empire.<\/p>\n
The Colton location will serve as the anchor for this new corridor and is centrally located to support its first EV corridor, connecting Southern California to Las Vegas via the I-15 corridor.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the 15 goes up to Vegas and the 10 goes over to Phoenix, it\u2019s centrally located to support and service both corridors. Eventually, we\u2019re going to open up in Blythe and in Phoenix, and that will allow us to have key positions on the corridor. This enables trucks to go from location to location, ensuring they get a full charge without range anxiety,\u201d said Patrick Macdonald-King, CEO of Greenlane, in an interview with FreightWaves.<\/p>\n
In addition to the corridor expansion, Greenlane also announced a new strategic partnership with EV truck maker and OEM Windrose Technology. Windrose recently validated the viability of long-haul electric trucking when it successfully completed single-charge journeys from Colton to Phoenix. On how the Windrose trucks are able to make the single-charge trip, one factor is in their charging setup.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can take an intake of about 800 kilowatt-hours per hour at our sites by putting two CCS chargers on either side of the truck. With their range, they\u2019ve been able to do a single charge and go from Colton all the way to Phoenix, which has been very impressive. \u2026 They\u2019ve been running the tests with fully loaded cargo. I believe it was about 75,000 pounds of what they were hauling across the corridor \u2026 real-world examples of technology and innovation at work,\u201d added Macdonald-King.<\/p>\n
\u201cAchieving nearly 300 miles with a GCWR of 74,420 pounds on a single charge with 12% battery left proves that electric long-haul trucking isn\u2019t just theory\u2014it\u2019s proven real-world performance,\u201d added Wen Han, founder and CEO of Windrose Technology, in the press release.<\/p>\n
To handle the growth and expansion, the company is implementing forward-thinking infrastructure that can be upgraded to accommodate megawatt charging as the technology becomes available. At its Colton facility, Greenlane deployed \u201cTrenwa\u201d tunneling throughout the site, allowing for cable upgrades without trenching. This will become important later as more companies switch from CCS to megawatt charging stations.<\/p>\n
That transition to full megawatt charging will not happen overnight, but it helps to be prepared. \u201cIt depends on how much future planning you\u2019re doing on each site,\u201d Macdonald-King said. \u201cA lot of the sites we\u2019re moving forward on into 2026-2027, we\u2019re going straight to megawatt charging because the trucks are coming out the following year.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new corridor will also support Nevoya, an electric trucking company that plans to operate battery-electric trucks along both the I-10 and I-15 corridors.<\/p>\n
Greenlane anticipates opening the first location on this corridor by 2026, with two locations expected to be operational by the end of that year.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, we\u2019re excited about it. We\u2019re working with partners like Navistar and others, and they\u2019re very interested in the corridor. We\u2019ve had a number of customers give us commitments to that corridor, which is why we\u2019ve been focused on it. We\u2019re planning on getting that going, opening the first location probably in 2026, and hopefully two locations by the end of the year to service it,\u201d Macdonald-King said.<\/p>\n
Greenlane is a joint venture between Daimler Truck, NextEra Energy and BlackRock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenlane announced it is establishing a second commercial electric vehicle (EV) charging corridor, this one connecting Southern California…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":143587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,85226,85227,85228,85229,85230,1589,158,85231,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,85232],"class_list":{"0":"post-143586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-electric-charging-infrastructure","12":"tag-electric-trucks","13":"tag-electric-vehcles","14":"tag-greenlane","15":"tag-megawatt-charging-system","16":"tag-phoenix","17":"tag-technology","18":"tag-trucking","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-windrose-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115024016499520806","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}