Orange EV, a manufacturer of zero-emission terminal trucks, has announced that APM Terminals Elizabeth has placed an order for 96 Orange EV electric terminal trucks, marking one of the largest port electrification commitments in history.
The announcement follows a recent signing ceremony at APM Terminals Elizabeth, the port operator’s largest operations on the East Coast.
The HUSK-e XP trucks are designed for port and terminal operations and can move up to 180,000 pounds of combined weight. They use a 310-kWh lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, the largest battery pack in Orange EV’s lineup.
Orange EV said its fleet has averaged more than 97% uptime and logged more than 14 million hours and 33 million miles of operation.
The APM Terminals Elizabeth order comes on the heels of Orange EV's expansion at APM Terminals Los Angeles (Pier 400) earlier this summer, where a yearlong 20-truck rental pilot led to a 40-truck expansion, bringing that fleet to 60 trucks.
Together, the two deals point to a pattern playing out across the port sector: operators who spent the last several years piloting electric terminal trucks are now standardizing fleet wide, said Kurt Neutgens, CEO of Orange EV.
“Many port operators are accelerating because the Orange EV real-world data shows the business case for electrification and the environmental case align," Neutgens said Aug. 19.
The Port Elizabeth order also follows a deal announced earlier in August for 24 trucks at Greenwich Terminals, operator of the Packer Avenue Marine Terminal in South Philadelphia.
Photo caption: APM Terminals and Orange EV representatives at the agreement signing in Elizabeth. Front row L-R: Bill Hamlin, Kurt Neutgens, Henrik Kristensen and Mark Nolet. Back row, L-R: Sim Whitehill, Debra Paul and John Haak. – Image courtesy of Orange EV.
