The government of British Columbia joined three U.S. states and a Mexican state in a partnership to develop a zero-emissions trucking corridor down the west coast of North America, Electric Autonomy reports.
The project, called the British Columbia to Baja California ZEV Corridor (BC2BC), was announced on Wednesday in Long Beach, Calif. Baja California in Mexico, along with the U.S. states of California, Oregon and Washington are also part of the commitment.
The initial buildout of BC2BC will include 20 charging stations with a minimum of 2.5 MW and three hydrogen filling stations from Vancouver down to the I-5 freeway and into Baja, one of the busiest freight corridors in North America. The infrastructure will be interoperable across jurisdictions with common standards.
Average daily truck traffic along the 2,222-km I-5 is nearly 10,000 trucks, sometimes rising to as many as 35,000 per day.