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Robert Sanchez sits in a truck cab surrounded by LED display screens that show him battery and hydrogen levels in the nearly year-old, zero-emission Nikola-made truck.
His job on this day involves hauling containers from the congested TraPac terminal in the Port of Los Angeles to a storage yard near the port. Sanchez will use a charging station on Terminal Island’s Pier S to refuel the $400,000 big-rig.
The charging station, a partner between 4 Gen Logistics and Electrify America, is part