{"id":5234,"date":"2025-04-23T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/greenport\/2025\/04\/23\/las-all-electric-truckable-port-tug\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T13:15:35","slug":"las-all-electric-truckable-port-tug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/news\/americas-greenport\/las-all-electric-truckable-port-tug\/","title":{"rendered":"LAs all-electric \u2018truckable\u2019 port tug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26-foot port vessel is being retrofitted in collaboration with Portland\u2019s Diversified Marine Inc and&nbsp;lessons from its integration are already informing designs for larger tugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Arc, our mission has always been to electrify the entire marine industry. Workboats are a big step towards that end,\u201d said CEO and co-founder of Arc, Mitch Lee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project sets the stage for our future efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ideally suited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Arc\u2019s electric tug helps address inefficiencies with dual motors, large lithium-ion batteries and real-time performance monitoring. Lower maintenance and operating costs are a bonus.<\/p>\n<p>Powered by Arc\u2019s proprietary electric powertrain and software, the tug is designed for high-torque, short-range missions, ideal for the repetitive tasks typical of tugboat operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt just makes sense,\u201d said Robert Binkowski, Arc\u2019s research and development lead. \u201cThis is the future of every port in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles and Long Beach aim to transition to zero-emission equipment by 2030 and zero-emission trucks by 2035, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/environment-and-sustainability\/las-zero-emission-harbour-craft-drive\/1499286.article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">harbour craft<\/a> to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing the roughly 2,000 tugs in the US could save over 1.6 million cars worth of greenhouse gas emissions annually.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is important and critical to our economy,\u201d added Kofi Asante, Arc\u2019s VP of business development. \u201cOur retrofit is the beginning of a major workboat transition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Arc\u2019s electric tug is set to launch at the port this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arc is launching the first electric truckable tugboat at the Port of Los Angeles, marking a significant milestone in port electrification and efforts to reduce port emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,46],"tags":[1778,637,361,412,675,935,48],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-5234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas-greenport","category-energy-technology-greenport","tag-electric-tug","tag-port-electrification","tag-port-emissions","tag-port-of-los-angeles","tag-port-operations","tag-port-vessel","tag-shorepower-electrification"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234","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=5234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5236,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5234\/revisions\/5236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5234"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/greenport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=5234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}