By the end of 2012, California will be home to 105 all-electric Frito-Lay delivery trucks, the company’s largest deployment of zero-emission trucks in any state. The new electric trucks will operate from distribution centers located throughout California: Alameda, City of Industry, La Mirada, Manteca, San Diego, San Jose and Torrance. The announcement was made at a high-profile event at the company’s Torrance Distribution Center, where company execs were applauded for their leadership by California Gov. Jerry Brown and MSRC Chair Greg Winterbottom. Both MSRC and the State of California provided funding support for Frito-Lay’s vehicle purchases
More than 140 public agency, non-profit, and private sector representatives participated in workshops held across the southland this summer, designed to solicit ideas on innovative approaches for investing Clean Transportation Funding. The MSRC hosted six public workshops throughout Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Los Angeles Counties exploring cost-effective ways the MSRC could invest its Clean Transportation Funding to provide maximum emissions and pollution reduction benefits. The key findings were presented to the MSRC Board and its Technical Advisory Committee to help inform the 2013 grantmaking cycle.
Electric, hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars have received a lot of attention in the news over the past couple of years, however, their counterparts in the trucking sector have largely gone unnoticed. The MSRC, along with other agencies, has begun providing incentive funding for electric trucks and charging infrastructure including a grant to Frito-Lay to support aggressive adoption of electric trucks for its California fleet. CalStart President & CEO John Boesel recently spoke with Clean Air Roadmap about the state of electric trucks and what he sees as a promising future for a rapidly advancing technology that can clean our
