{"id":247342,"date":"2024-03-20T17:23:59","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/where-is-truck-charging-needed-first-we-have-the-white-houses-answer\/"},"modified":"2024-03-20T19:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T19:12:45","slug":"where-is-truck-charging-needed-first-we-have-the-white-houses-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/where-is-truck-charging-needed-first-we-have-the-white-houses-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Is Truck Charging Needed First? We Have the White House\u2019s Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The transition to replace the most heavily polluting diesel vehicles on the road with zero-emission models is critical both to avoid the worst effects of climate change and to clean up foul air in freight-adjacent neighborhoods. Indeed, the communities most impacted by local air pollution from freight have been leading the call for the zero-emission freight for decades\u2014you should hear from our partners at the Moving Forward Network (MFN) directly on this (see here and here for starters). Together, we advocate for policies to achieve 100 percent zero emission truck sales by 2035.<\/p>\n

I wrote previously about the general categories of where zero-emission electric trucks charge\u2014home base and, for some, public and shared private chargers. We got a more solid vision of the geographic locations where trucks do and will need to charge last week when the Biden-Harris administration…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read the full article originally published at blog.ucsusa.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The transition to replace the most heavily polluting diesel vehicles on the road with zero-emission models is critical both to avoid the worst effects of climate change and to clean up foul air in freight-adjacent neighborhoods. Indeed, the communities most impacted by local air pollution from freight have been leading the call for the zero-emission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":247343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhere Is Truck Charging Needed First? 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