PhilaPort<\/a> grant compliance administrator Valerie Piper said two dozen electric yard trucks, which move cargo containers, will arrive.<\/p>\n\u201cIn the next four to six weeks, there will be 24 moved to Packer Avenue \u2014 brand new, off the assembly line,\u201d she said. \u201cWith each of those units, there\u2019s going to be several chargers that are going to be deployed, and we do also have \u2014 very exciting \u2014 at the end of the year, a new rail switcher.\u201d<\/p>\n
Piper said the electric vehicles are proving to be popular.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlready, the operators who have units are saying they love them. The workers love them. They\u2019re quiet, they\u2019re clean.\u201d<\/p>\n
As it moves to reduce carbon emissions, PhilaPort is using a $78 million EPA grant to acquire the new equipment.<\/p>\n
The port is also hoping to buy two new electric ship-to-shore cranes, but U.S. firms don\u2019t make them, so it is waiting on a waiver under the Build America, Buy America Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Out with diesel, in with electric: The Port of Philadelphia is using more electric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1125,34877,69,71,70,89173,29010],"class_list":["post-201914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-clean-energy","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philaport","tag-port-of-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}