Zero-Emissions Truck Trial Set to Begin This Year in Ports of Long Beach, LA

4/26/2022

Source: Los Angeles Daily News

Long Beach Mayor Robert Garcia announces the launch of a new Clean Truck Fund rate at 4Gen Logistics in Long Beach on Friday, April 1, 2022. The new fee is expected to generate up to $90 million in its first year and will allow the ports to accelerate the development and deployment of zero-emissions trucks and infrastructure. $26.98 million in grant money and the $47 million in required matching funds will support the JETSI project’s deployment of 100 BETs in the South Coast Air Basin.

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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.