Just a few years ago, electric trucks seemed like a distant dream. Yet in 2024, American companies deployed more than 15,000 medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles (EVs)—including battery-electric semitrucks, passenger buses, and delivery vans.
Fleet orders for 2024 and beyond are picking up speed, spurred by increasing battery ranges and falling battery prices, lower operating and maintenance costs, and competitively low cost of ownership—in addition to duty cycle analysis showing many regional and local routes can easily be completed by today's EVs. In other words: The dawn of electric trucks, buses, and delivery vans is here.
This post is about high-power charging for medium- and heavy-duty electric trucks.