Following the September 2023 Run on Less - Electric DEPOT demonstration, the team at North American Council For Fleet Efficiency (NACFE) has been crunching the data and asking more questions of all the participating fleets, OEMs, EVSE and utilities, trying to learn more about EV truck charging at scale. In this session, NACFE present the numbers and experiences from all parties involved in bringing large scale EV truck depots to life. Attendees will see the latest data, just released in August. This will include information from the first fleet that has a full microgrid (wind, solar, battery and controller to island). While the fleet did have the needed minimum EVs to participate in the official DEPOTS demonstration, the company is clearly leading the industry in a new direction.

Attendees will learn why collaboration is required if the industry is going to meet the challenges legislated in California and other states…infrastructure delays prevented two of the 10 fleets from having their permanent smart charging systems in place in time to participate in DEPOTS. Real operations data doesn’t match the presumption that all trucks will charge slowly overnight in a smart, managed and cost friendly fashion with a one-to-one relationship of trucks to chargers. Utilities can have difficulty understanding and adapting to this reality.  NACFE findings reveal that slow infrastructure buildouts can negatively impact the utility and surrounding community, as well as the fleet. This presentation aims to identify ways that truck fleets and utilities can work together more proactively to find ways to be more effective and quicker with approvals and system installation when it is time to move.