![]() “Each station will offer restrooms and a shop, fast WiFi, as well as repair and wash facilities for trucks. “A big focus of the project is creating safe, clean facilities for truck drivers to rest, which, in turn, will increase road safety. “Each station will deploy ultrafast charging technology, coupled with modular battery packs that are being developed in China, with the goal of being able to charge a truck within 20 minutes,” says the company. ![]() Zero Carbon Charge says its proposed charging stations will all be offgrid, with each facility powered by 35 MWp of solar PV. “It is, therefore, critical that we start investing in off-grid infrastructure to power these trucks, particularly…on long-haul routes.” “If one takes into account all 14 national roads, the country would need an additional 8 billion kilowatts a year of electricity to power the 30 000 electric trucks travelling on these routes daily, placing a major strain on the national grid. Zero Carbon Charge says any growth in domestic electric truck sales will create an increased energy demand, with the electricity required to charge the trucks using the N3 route daily totalling 2.3-billion kilowatt hours a year. “Replacing these fuel-powered trucks with electric models will save 670 kg of CO2 emissions per truck per day, significantly reducing our country’s reliance on expensive dirty fossil fuel imports.” “Every day, 8 756 trucks travel on the N3 between Durban and Johannesburg, using over 658-million litres of fuel at an imported cost of R8-billion, emitting 1.8-billion kilogrammes of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year,” notes Zero Carbon Charge co-founder Joubert Roux. ![]() Zero Carbon Charge adds that the new offering is in response to a growing shift by truck manufacturers to electric load carriers.
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