California hopes that its stringent rules combined with financial support — truck purchase grants from state agencies can total as much as $288,000 per vehicle, operators say — will help spur truckers, automakers, warehouse landlords, utilities and charging companies to make the investments needed to create a carbon-free port truck sector by 2035, when all diesel trucks will be banned from the ports.
How does that help with railroad timetable disarray and general disinterest in expanding the overhead electrification of freight rail?
Expanding the number of ‘inland ports’ from which you move containers from train to truck on the other hand would cut down massively on the needed range and subsequent cost of your ports trucks.
That’s a separate regulatory situation from on-road vehicles where CARB has power to act