Anheuser-Busch has purchased 21 fully electric Class 8 trucks, making it the largest such truck deployment in North America.

The truck’s will be part of the beer-maker’s California fleet, which is part of a bigger project to explore sustainable warehousing and distribution transportation options.

The trucks will operate in distribution facilities in Sylmar, Riverside, Pomona, and Carson.

$5.5 million in funding for the project, ‘The Zero Emission Beverage Handling and Distribution at Scale,’ came from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) through the Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE). Matching funds of $5.8 million were also put up by stakeholders for a total project cost of $11,326,169, according to published report on the website, GreenTechnica.

“With this exciting project, Anheuser-Busch is providing a real-world demonstration of the future for moving goods and products throughout California,” Richard Corey, Executive Officer at the California Air Resources Board, told GreenTechnica. “I congratulate all the companies partnering on this impressive effort for embracing zero-emission trucks and showing other businesses a zero-emissions solution to moving goods and cargo that cleans the air, protects our children’s health, and fights climate change.”

The project not only includes the necessary scope for the vehicles themselves, but also looks at the electricity needed to power the vehicles.

Upgrading the 21 trucks from traditional diesel Class 8 trucks to a fully electric trucks from BYD is estimated to eliminate 910 metric tons of CO2 per year. That’s like pulling 200 passenger vehicles off the road.

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