Volvo Vans North America buyer, High quality Customized Distribution (QCD)—a Golden State Meals (GSF) firm—is growing its dedication to zero-tailpipe emission freight transport with its newest order of 30 Volvo VNR Electrics. In early 2023, the battery-electric Class 8 vehicles will probably be deployed in QCD’s Southern California fleet operations delivering merchandise to eating places and occasional outlets all through Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
This multi-stakeholder electrification challenge, introduced throughout a press occasion on 9 Could on the Superior Clear Transportation (ACT) Expo, consists of 16 quick chargers and a renewable vitality microgrid to energy the chargers.
Every year, QCD’s fleet of 700 Class 8 tractors makes a couple of million last-mile deliveries from its 26 distribution facilities throughout the US, averaging greater than 35 million miles on the highway yearly. The corporate’s funding in Volvo VNR Electrical, which now consists of 45 vehicles, is a central a part of its technique to assist its clients cut back their provide chain emissions.
Final April, QCD ordered its first batch of 14 leased Volvo VNR Electrical vehicles with funding assist from a grant awarded to Volvo Monetary Companies from the Cell Supply Air Air pollution Discount Assessment Committee’s (MSRC) Inland Port Program. The primary Volvo VNR Electrics from the 2021 order will begin operations this month out of its distribution middle in Fontana, California. The remaining vehicles of the order will probably be deployed all through 2022 and early 2023.
As a part of the MSRC grant, VFS is working with QCD to fund the charging infrastructure for its Fontana facility by leasing two transportable DCFS 50 KW chargers and eight everlasting DCFS 180 KW charging stations.
With the deployment of the 30 extra Volvo VNR Electrics, QCD is increasing its zero-tailpipe emission fleet to function from a second distribution middle in La Puente, California. QCD obtained funding for the 30 Volvo VNR Electrics by means of the Southern California Affiliation of Governments’ (SCAG) Final Mile Freight Program, established in partnership with MSRC.
To bolster the environmental and financial advantages of the challenge additional, in addition to enhance resiliency, QCD has partnered with Scale Microgrid Options to construct a clear vitality microgrid to energy its La Puente’s battery-electric fleet and distribution middle.
InCharge Power will provide and preserve quick charging stations using onsite renewable vitality generated by a microgrid developed by Scale Microgrid Options to assist QCD’s rising Volvo VNR Electrical fleet.
The microgrid for QCD’s charging infrastructure will embody options akin to:
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A mixed 1,200kW of rooftop photo voltaic, 250kW of carport photo voltaic, 3 megawatt hours (MWh) of battery storage, and 1,500 kilowatts (kW) of backup technology.
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A modular design method utilizing pre-engineered parts, which accelerates the challenge building and set up course of, minimizes interruption to QCD fleet operations and makes it straightforward and inexpensive to scale as extra EVs are added to QCD’s fleet.
QCD companions with Volvo Vans’ dealership Gateway Truck & Refrigeration to develop their evolving fleet and order the Volvo VNR Electrics as a part of its nationwide fleet procurement technique. Positioned within the St. Louis space, Gateway is within the strategy of changing into a Volvo Vans Licensed Electrical Car (EV) Supplier in order that its crew can assist clients all through its Missouri and Illinois service territory with their electromobility targets.
