The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded a US$1.3m Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA) grant to South Carolina (SC) Ports. The grant will be used to support project partners A&R Logistics and Benore Logistic Systems as they deploy all-electric, energy-efficient trucks in place of diesel trucks.<\/p>\n
\u201cSC Ports is consistently looking for ways to make our operations more sustainable and efficient,” said SC Ports\u2019 chief operating officer, Barbara Melvin. \u201cThe support from the EPA through the $1.3 million DERA grant, and the bold initiative taken by A&R Logistics and Benore to deploy the electric trucks, serve as a great model for companies looking to create a more sustainable supply chain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cutting air pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n A&R Logistics and Benore Logistic Systems will use the funds to replace a combined eight diesel freight haulers with new zero emission, battery electric-powered tractor trucks. When operating, the Peterbilt electric vehicles do not create exhaust or harmful byproducts.<\/p>\n Benore will deploy six trucks in the Upstate to support the movement of cargo from BMW Manufacturing Co.\u2019s plant to SC Ports\u2019 rail-served Inland Port Greer.<\/p>\n A&R Logistics will deploy one truck to move cargo between its new 615,000-square-foot export facility in Moncks Corner and the Port of Charleston; the other will be deployed in the Savannah area.<\/p>\n Replacing older diesel vehicles with electric vehicles significantly reduces the amount of hydrocarbon, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions being released into the environment over a vehicle\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n The Peterbilt electric vehicles will also showcase the efficiencies of zero-emission vehicles, such as reduced maintenance and vehicle repairs by up to 40% compared to diesel vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Investment in zero-emission trucks is being helped along by new funding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-11620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11622,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11620\/revisions\/11622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11620"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=11620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}