Electric Trucks Put to the Test in I-95 Corridor Charger Program

The Biden administration’s plan to invest $250 million to kick-start electric trucking in the Northeast corridor is facing uncertainty with a trucking industry whose needs and desires can be hard to anticipate.

Under the newly funded Clean Corridor Coalition plan, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Connecticut will install chargers capable of topping up electric trucks along Interstate 95, one of the nation’s busiest highways. The plan is key to the administration’s climate pollution reduction goals, as it will prevent 18.6 million tons of carbon from being emitted by 2050, according to Environmental Protection Agency estimates.

But it’s far from a ...