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- When I think about trucking,
I think about the sticky black sludge on my window seal,
and I think about the constant cough I would have at night
because the freeway emissions are coming into my house.
So thinking about what's the best way to reduce the impact
of trucking is really what's on my mind.
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- Trucks generate over 41% of the greenhouse gas emissions
out of the entire transportation sector.
That's really a unique perspective because trucks
are a much smaller population
of vehicles than passenger cars,
but because they operate diesel engines
and because they're operating anywhere
from eight to 20 hours a day, they are much more impactful.
So we realized if we want to fix the emission solution,
we need to focus on the most disproportionate contributors
to greenhouse gas emissions, and that's what we've done.
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- You've seen an immense growth in the amount of
'last mile' delivery vehicles
that are operating on the roads today,
and that's really the segment that we're focused on.
- This is what a fuel tank looks like
in the age of electric vehicles.
This holds somewhere between 45 and 90 miles of range.
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- We use somewhere between 1,600
and 3,500 of these per battery box.
They get loaded over here into what we call clips.
Once that's done, we mount 24 of those clips,
12 on each side and turn it into a battery module
by being modular,
by having the ability to add
or remove battery from the vehicle,
even after delivery to the customer,
we're able to adapt to their changing routes
and needs without having to pre-purchase
all of that capability on day one,
and then be stuck with it.
- It looks just like your truck, because it is your truck,
we've taken the body that you normally use
to do all your business with it,
and we'll put it on our chassis.
This is an electric vehicle.
You can get road dirt,
but you don't get a lot of the other kinds of oils
and grimes that you find on a conventional diesel.
We're proud of this machine.
Let's go for a drive.
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- Los Angeles is actually one of the worst
air quality zones in the country.
It's because of the distribution centers
and the large population of diesel trucks.
What a lot of folks don't realize,
they're disproportionately affecting
communities of color that ultimately don't have a choice
as to whether they get to live near these
industrial centers or near these diesel trucks.
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- Black and brown people didn't wake up one day
and they were like, you know what I really want to do,
I want to live next to a freeway,
I want to live next to a port,
I want to live next to a trucking facility.
If you were restricted by the government
from getting home loans in areas
that are more environmentally healthy,
where else do you end up but adjacent
to these types of land uses that are going to create
asthma and other health detriments to you.
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Climate tech companies can do good while doing well.
The technologies that they're creating
are mitigating climate change
and they can grow with communities,
so I think something that's always on our mind
is how are we gonna get our companies
to create good green jobs, where you can one,
recruit from the community that you're in,
train people or up-skill people for those positions,
and most of all,
make sure that you're hiring them
and offering them benefits.
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- What everybody can do from a driver, to a fleet manager,
to regulators is get educated,
understand the technology that exists today
and how we can actually make these transitions,
and the more educated we are,
the more informed decisions we can make,
and ultimately make this
zero emissions future a reality sooner.
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