A team of NREL researchers collected detailed vehicle analysis to show how drayage trucks operating at the Port of New York and New Jersey could be strong candidates for electrification. Each electrified truck would help slash 76 tons of carbon emissions per truck each year. Photo from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

If goods are the lifeblood of global trade, ports are America’s arteries, helping to pump cargo in and out of the United States. But the work of ports—and the diesel-fueled drayage trucks that move freight to warehouses and rail yards—comes at a steep cost: Their operations emit airborne toxins, like particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, and greenhouse gases, and create smog, which harms the health of surrounding communities and the environment.

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