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Federal officials hope a new, nationwide strategy for zero-emission vehicle infrastructure will push the country’s freight transportation sector away from diesel and gasoline. The Biden administration unveiled a “National Zero-Emission Freight Corridor Strategy” to phase those technologies into the nation’s freight networks through 2040.
The initiative, Bloomberg reports, aims to direct billions in potential federal funding toward electric vehicle chargers and hydrogen fuel stations along the nation’s most heavily traveled highways. The roadmap would also help encourage the private sector to embrace those technologies and, ultimately, enable the widespread use of electric or hydrogen-fueled heavy-duty freight trucks.
The administration announced the highways making up the “National EV Freight Corridors” — as required under an earlier infrastructure funding law — and said the first phase of the strategy would determine priority “hubs” using freight volumes in those areas in the coming years.
The second phase would connect those hubs along “critical” freight corridors from 2027 to 2030, and the third would expand those connections from 2030 to 2035.
The fourth and final phase would link regional corridors into a national network by 2040 — by which point, the White House hopes, new sales of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles will be entirely zero-emission.
