The JETSI project is a landmark initiative deploying 100 Class 8 battery-electric trucks (BETs) across Southern California to demonstrate strategies to successfully scale market penetration of zero emission technologies.
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JETSI project partner, NFI, showcases its battery-electric drayage operations from dispatch through end-of-day charging, highlighting how charging infrastructure and yard management support daily port service. The video demonstrates how zero-emission trucking is operating at scale today through the JETSI project.
Clean Trucking | NFI, together with JETSI, has released a “Day in the Life” video that tracks a battery-electric truck driver during a routine drayage shift, hauling freight between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and distribution sites in the Golden State’s Inland Empire.
Clean Trucking | NFI, together with JETSI, has released a “Day in the Life” video that tracks a battery-electric truck driver during a routine drayage shift, hauling freight between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and distribution sites in the Golden State’s Inland Empire.
Coalition for Clean Air | The Coalition for Clean Air, in partnership with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice (CCAEJ), gathered community perspectives on the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI). Their insights highlight both the air quality benefits of battery-electric trucks for overburdened freight corridors and the need for equitable infrastructure planning, health protections, and community engagement to ensure a just clean freight transition.
JETSI project partners are collaborating to help the freight logistics industry move beyond small pilot projects for Class 8 BETs and demonstrate how they can be deployed successfully at scale.
JETSI is jointly financed by California Air Resources Board and California Energy Commission ($26.98 million), MSRC ($8 million), and South Coast AQMD ($5.4 million), with an additional $21.7 million from Port of Long Beach, Port of Los Angeles, Southern California Edison, NFI, and Schneider. JETSI is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of cap-and-trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment, particularly in disadvantaged communities.
