Palmer: High-power depot top-off charging can double commercial electric vehicle utilization
Neha Palmer · Terrawatt Infrastructure’s billion-dollar strategy · May 15, 2025 · at 31:06
Neha Palmer, CEO of Terawatt Infrastructure, explains how fast top-off charging at dedicated depots enables double-shifting heavy-duty electric trucks instead of 6- to 12-hour overnight depot charging.
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“The amount of power we have per charger allows it to charge, you know, a vehicle to charge much faster than most behind-the-fence chargers, and so having that capability can sometimes allow for a double shift of a vehicle, where if it was a slower charge, they could use it for one run, has to come back to the yard, spend, you know, six to 12 hours charging, and then can go out again. But if you can, you know, top-off You might be able to get two runs in a day, and all of a sudden, that utilization of that vehicle's doubled.”
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