The Green Revolution
Food Logistics magazine highlights Shorepower benefits enjoyed by Maine’s Paper & Food and Witte Bros.
“Establishing a network of plug-in power throughout the U.S. is the goal of the federally funded Shorepower Truck Electrification Project (STEP), administered jointly by Shorepower Technologies and Cascade Sierra Solutions.
“New reefer units can burn up to a gallon of diesel an hour and older units even more, but plug-in solutions can cut that $4 per gallon of diesel fuel bill in half and do it with less noise and greenhouse gas emissions.
“The infrastructure [for eTRU] is slowly making its way across the country,” confirms Alan Bates, vice president of marketing for Shorepower Technologies.”