The world is certainly going green.

Did you know?

Trucks carry more than 70% of all US tonnage transported in the US.

With companies, cities and entire nations setting zero emissions goals, it's as if social, political and even economic players finally have something to agree on. And while consumer electric vehicles (EV), renewable power generation and conservation are helping achieve those goals, there’s one glaring omission. Commercial vehicles.

There are more than 2 million semi-trucks on the roads in the United States joining another14 million delivery trucks and vans of all makes and sizes. And those highly valuable commodities unfortunately create massive amounts of pollution. Whether its cost, charge downtime or battery technology limitations, the commercial EV marketplace simply can’t achieve the advancements of the other sectors.

Trucking/Logistics is responsible for over 60% of all US NOx pollution (EPA 2019).

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Green House Gas emissions by sector

Popion Mobility is a revolutionary platform that solves the EV problem for commercial trucking fleets. Universal and scalable, the Popion solution guarantees cost savings regardless of your current scenario.

One of the biggest challenges of electrifying transportation is the high cost of installing new charging stations. The substantial energy requirements of batteries in heavy-duty electric vehicles demand high-power chargers several times more capable than consumer electric vehicle chargers. Astonishingly, charger equipment purchase and installation fees can cost up to $350,000 per charger port. In fact, a 2019 report from the Los Angeles Metro Transit Authority stated that it requires anywhere from $700 Million to $1 Billion to build the charger infrastructure to migrate their fleet of 2300 transit buses to electric buses. The same report showed that the cost of purchasing the electric vehicles is $400 Million; thus the infrastructure cost is 2.5 times the cost of purchasing the vehicles.

How does popion address the electrification challenges?

Popion offers a network of accessible battery-exchange stations that refuel electric vehicles within a few minutes. A modular battery-pack design is used to allow seamless battery exchange for a variety of vehicles. In order to get a refuel, a vehicle stops at a designated battery-exchange station. The station operator uses exchange equipment to take out the depleted batteries from the vehicle and put fully charged batteries back in. The exchange sequence is expected to put the vehicle back into operation within only 5-10 minutes after the stop, thus significantly reducing the time required to obtain a full-battery charge. The depleted batteries are mounted onto the charging rack to get charged and ready for the next use.

If every commercial truck in the US pared just 3 minutes for every diesel fill-up, the result would be more than 20,000,000 minutes saved annually. That’s over 40 years of combined productivity!

The battery exchange station infrastructure is up to 4 times less expensive to build compared to plug-in charging infrastructure. It requires less Direct Current Fast Charging (DCFC) equipment than plug-in charging since one charger can fuel up to 15 vehicles in a day.

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Why Do We Need to Electrify Transportation?

Popion Mobility is a revolutionary platform that solves the EV problem for commercial trucking fleets. Universal and scalable, the Popion solution guarantees cost savings regardless of your current scenario.

How does popion address the electrification challenges?