Pilot and Volvo announce plan to construct charging community for electrical semis at truck stops
On Tuesday, the Pilot Firm and Volvo Group unveiled plans to create a community of chargers for medium and heavy responsibility vans at Pilot and Flying J truck cease areas throughout the nation.
Pilot and Volvo firm leaders signed a letter of intent to companion to develop a charging community open to all battery-electric Class 8 truck manufacturers, in keeping with a November 15 information launch.
The businesses say that the chargers can be out there at choose Pilot and Flying J shops “that are ideally positioned alongside transportation corridors and are well-equipped to serve skilled drivers.” The truck stops can be chosen based mostly on buyer wants, present and anticipated battery-electric truck density, and the provision of public funding to assist infrastructure prices.
The businesses counsel that the charging community would create “a really perfect alternative for public funds from federal, state, and native companies to speed up the event of a high-performance charging community.”
“Pilot Firm is keen to assist our prospects attain their sustainability targets by partnering with the Volvo Group to develop the infrastructure and techniques wanted to maneuver in the direction of a extra decarbonized future,” mentioned Shameek Konar, CEO of Pilot Firm. “Volvo Group’s confirmed experience in electrical vans mixed with our nationwide journey middle community and sturdy power platform leverages our respective data and sources to advance the nation’s charging infrastructure. We stay up for working collectively to develop a holistic answer for electrified fleets, additional enabling the transportation business’s power transition.”
“As we work to construct a extra sustainable, decarbonized transport system, our group firmly believes that partnership is the brand new management. We stay up for working facet by facet with Pilot Firm, and mixing our distinctive business insights, experience, and sources to develop a complete, nationwide charging community,” mentioned Peter Voorhoeve, president, Volvo Vans North America. “Our VNR Electrical prospects, in addition to different fleets seeking to undertake battery-electric vans, can have peace of thoughts that they will entry a dependable and sturdy, publicly accessible charging community strategically situated alongside main transportation corridors, enabling them to increase their working radius and decarbonize much more of their routes.”
In August 2022, Pilot introduced one other main partnership with Kodiak Robotics to carry autonomous truck companies to Pilot and Flying J truck stops.
In March 2022, Pilot mentioned that it might spend a billion {dollars} over the following few years to renovate greater than 400 shops nationwide as a part of the corporate’s “New Horizons” mission.
