Nissan has inaugurated an electric truck charging station that could save 1,500 tons of CO2 per year at the factory in Sunderland, UK.
This pioneering project in the British automotive industry establishes a fully electric supply chain for transporting products to the Nissan factory and delivering new vehicles.
The facility, which cost £1.4 million (about €1.6 million), includes seven charging stations capable of powering up to ten electric trucks simultaneously.
The project complements the factory’s EV36Zero vision for sustainable production, bringing together electric vehicles, renewable energy, and battery production.
The station will support 60 daily deliveries made by electric trucks from various points in the UK to the factory and represents just the beginning of the journey towards electrifying the supply chain of the Sunderland factory.
“We are exploring other opportunities to allow other carriers to use the charging station, as well as analyzing other opportunities to maximize its full potential,” said Michael Simpson, vice president of Supply Chain Management at Nissan AMIEO.
The charging station will support a fleet of 25 trucks with a charging capacity of up to 360 kW. The trucks will collect parts from Nissan suppliers in the UK, extending to Derby, as well as deliver produced vehicles to and from the port of Tyne. This amounts to over 2.4 million kilometers traveled per year, fully electrified, saving 1500 tons of CO2 annually.
