Videos

Explore our gallery of JETSI project videos to learn more about the project goals and milestones. For media contacts with questions about the project, please contact GNA’s Lawren Markle at Lawren.Markle@gladstein.org.

2/26/2024

NFI Powering Progress in Southern California

NFI has officially received all 50 Class 8 battery-electric trucks funded through the project—including 30 Freightliner eCascadia trucks and 20 Volvo VNR Electric trucks. To support its expanding battery-electric truck fleet, NFI collaborated with Southern California Edison and Electrify America to develop its charging depot supporting refueling speeds up to 350 kW for capable trucks and will feature roughly 7 MW of DC charging capacity shared across 38 individual DC fast chargers when the facility is fully completed. Play Video

2/1/2024

Exploring Career Opportunities in Electric Truck Maintenance

Technicians from Velocity Vehicle Group, one of the largest full-service commercial truck dealerships in the U.S, guided students from Rio Hondo College’s electric vehicle maintenance program through the dealer group’s Whittier maintenance shop for an up-close look at the diverse career opportunities available due to growing zero-emission vehicle market share. With an increasing number of fleets in California transitioning to battery-electric trucks (BETs), Velocity and other area dealerships are investing in workforce development initiatives for maintenance and repair technicians to ensure the smooth operation of electric trucks and charging infrastructure. Play Video

11/15/2023

Maximizing a Battery-Electric Truck’s Range | Schneider

JETSI project partner, Schneider, occupies a fleet of nearly 100 battery-electric trucks in their Southern California operations. To ensure maximum efficiency and consistent, reliable performance, battery-electric truck driver, Marty Boots shares the best driving techniques to maximize the range of an electric truck. Play Video

11/1/2023

JETSI Battery-Electric Truck Ride-Along with Schneider

Driver and trainer, Marty Boots shares his experience driving battery-electric trucks from the prototype model to the production model of the Freightliner eCascadia. Play Video

8/23/2023

Green Transportation Summit & Expo Panel featuring Daimler Truck North America and Volvo Trucks North America

JETSI project partners, Daimler Truck North America and Volvo Trucks North America, participated in a panel at the Green Transportation Summit & Expo in Tacoma, Washington on August 23, 2023. Play Video

6/26/2023

JETSI Hosts Student Tours at ACT Expo 2023

As a part of JETSI’s workforce development initiative, and to familiarize future technicians with the new technology, 20 students and faculty from Rio Hondo College and San Bernardino Valley College’s heavy-duty battery-electric vehicle maintenance programs toured ACT Expo on May 4, 2023. Play Video

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Funding Partners

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.

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