WattEV opens world’s largest solar-powered truck charging depot, fourth station to open in one year
The WattEV Bakersfield depot will connect the San Joaquin Valley’s vast agricultural sector and growing warehousing complexes to California’s seaports and inland destinations.
- The WattEV Bakersfield depot will connect the San Joaquin Valley’s vast agricultural sector and growing warehousing complexes to California’s seaports and inland destinations.
- This is the world’s first electric truck stop featuring a solar-powered microgrid with a battery energy storage system (BESS), and is capable of megawatt rapid charging (MCS).
- Significantly, the MCS chargers will bring down truck charging “dwell time” from hours to less than 30 minutes, said WattEV CEO Salim Youssefzadeh.
- WattEV has spent the past three years building out the first freight corridors in the nation for public-access, MHD electric vehicle charging.