7/24 Big-rig truck EV charging depot opens at Port of Long Beach

First WattEV location, Transportation as a Service business will be energized and able to charge 26 drayage trucks at once

WattEV, one of the nation’s leading commercial-truck charging infrastructure
developers, will celebrate the Grand Opening of the USA’s largest charging station of its
kind for electric heavy-duty trucks at the Port of Long Beach on Monday, July 24.

Branded simply as “WattEV,” the depot 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
WattEV charging depot features 5MW of initial capacity for concurrent charging of 26
trucks from its 360KW chargers.

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.

The new charging depot will serve WattEV’s growing fleet of electric trucks operating on
its Truck-as-a-Service platform hauling freight to and from the combined ports of Long
Beach and Los Angeles, which receive some 40 percent of the nation’s containerized
imports.
WattEV’s POLB e-truck charging will later accommodate charging at megawatt rates to
reduce the dwell time to less than 20 minutes. The CCS system is the current charging
standard for heavy-duty electric trucks, while the new MCS standard for faster charging
systems is being finalized.
When trucks with megawatt charging capability become available, more pass-through etruck bays are planned at the POLB charging plaza, featuring the faster, higher-power
Megawatt Charging System (MCS), rated for charging at up to 1.2 megawatts.

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