CARB sets date for zero-emissions TRUs

The Port of Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles will each make $30M in Clean Truck Fund Rate funding available through the California Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP)

DP World is implementing fees for trucks with pre-Euro 6 engines while offering a rebate for electric trucks, plus instituting an annual “Terminal Awareness Course” for truckers.

Railroads say reliable zero emissions locomotives are not yet available and “cannot simply be willed into immediate existence by policymakers.”

New refrigerated trailers from TIP Group with Thermo King’s Advancer AxlePower system enable fully electric, low or zero-emission and autonomous trailer refrigeration for Albert Heijn.

The joint project will develop fuel cell/battery-powered terminal tractors. As part of the project, a Kalmar customer in the USA will trial two Kalmar Ottawa terminal tractors powered by fuel cell technology at its container terminal on the west coast; POLA awards ZE drayage truck grants

In November last year, following months of speculation, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) finally revealed its outline plans for a Tier 5 emissions standard.