Freight Industry Outreach Memo – ZEV Truck Infrastructure Engagement Summary

A stakeholder outreach report summarizing input from California’s freight industry on barriers and needs for deploying zero-emission trucks and charging infrastructure. Through surveys, interviews, and focus groups with fleets, facility operators, OEMs, community groups, and agencies, it identifies common challenges in transitioning to electric trucks: funding gaps, electric grid capacity limitations, misaligned timelines between vehicle procurement and charger installation, and concerns about equitable charger siting [etruc.org]. The memo highlights the importance of early community engagement in planning public charging, providing technical and grant support to smaller fleets, and accelerating high-power (megawatt) public charging deployment along freight routes [etruc.org]. It offers recommendations such as expanding pilot programs (e.g., microgrids), continuing public subsidies for infrastructure, and creating an up-to-date public charger map to build confidence among truck operators in the emerging charging network [etruc.org].