The White House, alongside the U.S. Departments of Transportation (DOT) and Energy (DOE), today released information regarding the nation’s strategy for electrifying freight corridors. Federally funded electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure is required to meet Buy America requirements, supporting domestic manufacturing of charging and other alternative fueling technology.

Additional details on the strategy can be found here. 

In response to today’s announcement, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh:

“This plan properly puts the horse before the cart, ensuring that we will have the charging infrastructure needed as truck fleets look to go zero-emission. Driving down emissions from heavy-duty vehicles is crucial not only to meeting our nation’s climate goals, but to reducing air pollution and improving public health in communities all along these heavily used freight corridors. Efforts like this have a ripple effect across the economy, creating and sustaining good union jobs manufacturing, installing, and maintaining EV charging infrastructure.”