The Port of Los Angeles has awarded $6 million to two Southern California-based trucking companies to purchase 22 electric trucks for use at the port.
The Los Angeles and Long Beach ports are pushing to have only electric trucks service the port complex by 2035.
Gardena-based MLI Leasing and El Segundo-based Performance Team will each get $3 million under the port’s Zero Emission Truck Pilot Program.
MLI will work with truck manufacturer Peterbilt Motors to invest more than $3.4 million to produce and deploy 12 electric trucks. Performance Team is working with Volvo to invest more than $5.6 million in 10 electric trucks.
All 22 trucks will be on the road within the next year, port officials reported. Each must make at least 50 trips each year to pick up cargo at the Los Angeles port….