TITAN Freight Methods, a less-than-truckload service headquartered in Portland, Oregon, plans so as to add three battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 vans to its fleet by the tip of the 12 months. The vans shall be manufactured at Daimler Truck North America’s Portland Truck Manufacturing Plant, and delivered by Premier Truck Group of Portland.

The brand new Freightliner eM2 medium-duty electrical field vans will present deliveries to companies all through the Portland Metropolitan space. To energy the electrical fleet, six Detroit eFill industrial charging stations have been put in at TITAN’s depot.

In 2019, TITAN started working with DTNA’s Electrical Mobility Group to design the infrastructure that might be required to affect its fleet. In 2021, TITAN was awarded an Oregon Diesel Emissions Mitigation Grant to interchange six diesel vans with new Freightliner EVs. Portland Common Electrical offered technical evaluation and its Make-Prepared fleet accomplice incentives to help with charging infrastructure design and prices.

In spring 2023, the Portland Bureau of Transportation was awarded practically $2 million via the DOT’s SMART Grants program. This funding is meant to allow Portland to pilot a zero-emission supply zone. TITAN’s fleet of electrical vans will assist to facilitate emission-free deliveries inside this 16-square-block space in downtown Portland.

“These heavy-duty electrical vans are a pure evolution in our journey to be a carbon-neutral transportation firm,” stated Keith Wilson, President and CEO of TITAN Freight Methods. “We now have a brand new zero-emission, lower-operating-cost device to assist us get nearer to realizing our sustainability targets.”

Supply: TITAN Freight Methods