New York City – The Bronx is Breathing

Reimagining a Cleaner Hunts Point With Zero-Emission Trucks

The Hunts Point peninsula – a South Bronx community that’s home to numerous waste transfer facilities and the nation’s largest wholesale food hub – sees over 15,000 truck trips each workday. Freight traffic and industrial operations have contributed to poor air quality, with children in Hunts Point hospitalized for asthma at nearly 2.5 times the average New York City rate.

These challenges informed the development of a partnership between Volvo and the Greater Hunts Point Economic Development Corporation to deploy electric trucks in the area, including Class 6 EV trucks and an electric refuse truck.  These vehicles will model zero-emissions transportation solutions in Hunts Point’s two dominant industries: food and waste.

The EVs will be supported by a freight-focused charging hub on an industrial brownfield site, as well as an initiative to support truck drivers in cooperative ownership of EV trucks. These solutions seek to lower financial and technical barriers to EV adoption and broaden access to electric vehicles in the freight sector. In aggregate, these solutions will model a new paradigm for electric truck deployment.

Learn more about truck electrification at Hunts Point below.