{"id":383605,"date":"2026-07-02T13:59:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383605\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T13:59:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T13:59:33","slug":"central-cas-first-public-heavy-duty-electric-truck-charging-depot-opens-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/383605\/","title":{"rendered":"Central CA\u2019s first public heavy-duty electric truck charging depot opens in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

WattEV, an electric vehicle charging company based in Southern California, has opened a heavy-duty truck charging depot in Fresno. This is the first project of its kind in Northern\/Central California.<\/p>\n

The charging depot is located on Chesnut Ave. off Highway 99, adjacent to the Fresno Truck Center and the parking lot of McCoy\u2019s coffee shop. Representatives from local businesses and organizations gathered on-site on Tuesday to mark the charging depot\u2019s grand opening.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt takes a village to get a site online, and you know, we\u2019re very used to being pioneers, we\u2019re used to being leaders, so it\u2019s really a great effort to work hand-in-hand with … different organizations to get a site like this online,\u201d said WattEV CEO Salim Youssefzadeh.<\/p>\n

The charging depot features seven MCS megawatt-fast chargers and 15 single-cord 240 kW CCS chargers.<\/p>\n

Joshua Simes, PG&E\u2019s Regional Vice President for the Central Valley, said that electric trucks becoming more commonplace on the 99 would reduce emissions and improve air quality. \u201cThis is actually helping not only PG&E but California with its clean climate goals,\u201d Simes said.<\/p>\n

PG&E also worked with WattEV on a similar electric charging station in Kern County.<\/p>\n

The project\u2019s contribution to improved air quality was echoed by Sarah Sharpe, deputy executive director of the Central California Asthma Collaborative. \u201cExhaust from diesel trucks traveling through the valley is the largest single source of air pollution in our region,\u201d Sharpe said, adding, \u201cThis is why we are so excited to see investments in zero-emission transportation.\u201d<\/p>\n

WattEV plans to open future similar charging stations in Oakland and Stockton. The company also has plans to expand across state lines into Arizona and Texas.<\/p>\n

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The completed charging stations were on display at Tuesday\u2019s event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WattEV, an electric vehicle charging company based in Southern California, has opened a heavy-duty truck charging depot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[154960,112,114,113,154959,1009],"class_list":["post-383605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-electric-vehicle-charging","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-truck-center","tag-southern-california"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}