Ten Class 8 Peterbilt Model 579EVs running drayage in the Port of Oakland illustrate two facts of heavy-duty electrification:
Class 8 Battery-electric trucks are for real.
They only work where infrastructure is in place to charge them.
Shippers Transport Express (STE) has both working for it in a three-month demonstration.
There are almost no container ships in the world left for liners to charter. Secondhand purchase prices are through the roof. It takes two years or more to get a newly built ship. How can liners find more capacity?
There is a way — without adding ships — for liners to move more cargo and take even greater advantage of today's stratospheric rates: speed up.