Amazon Building Electric-Truck Fleet in Southern California – Fuel Smarts [Video]

Amazon is building a fleet of Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 heavy-duty battery-electric trucks operating at and around the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach — the e-commerce giant’s largest electric truck fleet yet.

A recent delivery of eight VNR Electric trucks are part of a fleet of nearly 50 that will be operating in Southern California by the end of the year.

The purchase of the trucks was announced earlier this year, and the new Volvo VNR Electric tractors are now operating in California in the company’s ocean freight operations from San Jose to the Port of Los Angeles. They have started hitting the road at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, with a dozen expected by the end of the year.

The new Volvo electric truckswill …