The Class 8 on-road truck contains TransPower’s ElecTruck™ components, which have shown to easily meet the demanding power requirements of the heaviest on-road Class 8 trucks, weighing up to 80,000 lbs (on road) and 130-175,000 (off-road) gross combined weight. Since 2013, over a dozen trucks with the ElecTruck™ drive system have completed successful public demonstrations with over 100,000 miles of real-world experience including short haul drayage, school buses, yard tractors, and heavy port lifting equipment. Based on this experience, TransPower is currently building dozens more next generation electric road trucks with the ElecTruck™.

In 2017, TransPower began on-road demonstrations of various models of range extending plug-in hybrid trucks. These trucks share the same electric drive as their pure battery electric counterparts using half the battery or an estimated 40-50 miles of battery only range and add on-board power generation to extend the range on additional 400 miles or more. These range extenders can be fueled by compressed natural gas, compressed hydrogen, or near zero or zero emission extended range operation.

With the range extender approach, the drayage truck has an increased range to 135-200 miles. Transpower expects to use the zero-emission vehicles beyond the Long Beach area; to Ontario, Riverside and Orange County.

The ports in the ZECT II Project are overlooked by/are an area of focus to the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), that wants to improve the air quality in the region, especially as the number of trucks servicing the ports is expected to double to more than 32,000 trucks per day in 2030.