How do you start with electric trucks?

This month on On the Road, we’re all about electric trucks; specifically, we’ve been talking to truck OEMs about how things have been going now that fleets have had these trucks for a while.

But if you’re a fleet that hasn’t used an electric truck before, it all begins with that very difficult question: where do I start?

It’s a tricky thing, because getting an electric truck integrated into your fleet is not as simple as a diesel-powered one, where you simply buy it and have it start running routes. There’s charging, there’s infrastructure, there’s talking with your utilities, there’s figuring out the routes it will run and whether it will be financially efficient—it’s a lot.

For those who find this to be a lot to deal with, one potential solution comes from Verizon Connect in the form of their EV suitability tool. In his second appearance on OTR this month, Mathew Long of Verizon Connect sat down with me to talk over the details.