EV trucks pick up shipping containers at the Hight Logistics’ trucking facility in Long Beach.
Photographer: Alex Welsh/Bloomberg
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Stringent electrification regulations for the vehicles are teetering, hampering efforts to clean up one of the economy’s dirtiest sectors.
Two years ago, Rudy Diaz made a gutsy bet. The 45-year-old owner of Hight Logistics, a trucking company that hauls containers from the bustling ports around Los Angeles, began adding some of the country’s first electric heavy-duty trucks to his fleet.
One rolls by on an overcast morning earlier this month, eerily silent except for its large tires crunching on the asphalt. “There’s no fumes, there’s no noise,” enthuses Diaz, who now boasts 20 electric trucks among his fleet of 75 tractor trailers.