The exact model of the trucks haven’t yet been revealed and technical details remain thin. However, a LinkedIn post from GMA confirms that Nevoya will be the carrier operating the trucks, with Greenlane Infrastructure building the charging infrastructure to support the route.
Torque News highlights: “Google’s blog post features an image of an electric semi truck that looks like a Tesla Semi”, but that nothing in the subsequent text identifies the truck in the photo, confirms it as a Tesla Semi, or states which manufacturer’s vehicles Nevoya is actually deploying on the route.
These 25 semi trucks are part of a larger planned fleet of 63 trucks, which Google describes as “the largest known development of class 8 battery zero-emission trucks in Texas”. In a statement, the tech giant said it expects this overall fleet to travel around 11 million miles (17 million km) annually and save 92,000 metric tons in CO2 emissions.
Here, Google’s interest in the project become a little clearer: it states it is effectively “pooling” its procurement of environmental attribute certificates (EACs), which can be purchased by companies to offset logistics emissions within their supply chains.
The partners’ new deployment marks another addition to a growing network of electric heavy-duty freight on the Houston-Dallas corridor. In January, Nevoya began rolling out 40 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia trucks on the route as part of GMA’s first procurement programme. This initiative was designed to aggregate demand from major freight customers and accelerate the deployment of zero-emission trucks on a commercial route.
