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Groot Industries Orange EV Electric Terminal Truck Featured in Waste Advantage Magazine

2026-01-26T12:21:57-06:00May 12, 2017|Waste Management|

. A case study highlights , which operates an Orange EV terminal truck at a Chicago-area transfer station. Performance data demonstrates that the Orange EV truck is doing the job while using just 2.7% of the battery charge per hour on average. The article goes on to discuss incentive funds available nationwide. Fleets are using these lucrative funds today to pay for 50-85% of truck cost, and also thinking ahead to the VW Mitigation Trust Fund which will help deploy trucks in every state. Read the full Waste Advantage Magazine article . { "@context": "", "@type": "ImageObject", "contentUrl": "", "url": "", "contentlocation": "US", "name": "Making the Case for Electric Waste Transfer Vehicles", "description": "Groot Industries Orange EV Terminal Truck", "provider": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Orange EV", "url": "", "image": "" } }

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Orange EV and Moran Transportation in Drive Clean Chicago Video

2025-10-10T14:48:53-05:00May 6, 2017|Electric Trucking|

terminal trucks and the Drive Clean Chicago funds that paid 75% of the truck cost. { "@context": "", "@type":"VideoObject", "name": "Drive Clean Chicago - Incentives Advancing Hybrid and Electric Vehicles", "description":"Hear from City of Chicago and Fleet leadership on how Drive Clean Chicago is promoting clean and sustainable transportation in Chicago. Learn how the Drive Clean Truck Voucher Fund is promoting the adoption of electric and hybrid trucks and buses and how these vehicles benefit business and the environment. ", "thumbnailUrl" :[ "", "" ], "uploadDate": "2016-09-23", "duration":"PT03M49S", "contentUrl":"", "url": "", "embedurl": "" } }

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Rail Management Services (RMS) Re-Orders Orange EV T-Series after Successful Chicago Deployment

2026-01-26T14:44:44-06:00March 2, 2017|Rail Intermodal|

Leading rail intermodal firm expands use of electric yard trucks KANSAS CITY, Mo., February 29, 2017 – Orange EV today announced that Rail Management Services (RMS) has placed a follow-on order for nine (9) additional T-Series pure electric terminal trucks. RMS, one of the largest rail intermodal yard operators in the United States, purchased their first Orange EV truck in July 2016 for use at a Class 1 railyard in Chicago. Ed Morgenthaler, Vice President of Maintenance, Safety, Legal and Operations for RMS, estimates that the Chicago yard ranks as one of the top five toughest sites of their 40+ [...]

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Test-Drive Review of Orange EV’s T-Series

2025-10-13T11:07:09-05:00February 15, 2017|Terminal Trucks|

Jim Park of HDT TruckingInfo recently wrote a test-drive review of Orange EV’s T-Series terminal truck.  It reads in part, “There’s no arguing with the utility of an electric terminal tractor. Gone are all the usual concerns about EV range. These trucks are almost exactly the same truck you are currently using except for the powertrain, so there’s little transition anxiety. They are as capable as any diesel-powered hostler, and for the environmentally conscious, they produce zero on-site emissions.” He later adds, “Driving was virtually no different from a diesel, except that it’s much quieter. The electric motors make it really torquey, [...]

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California Fleets Buy New Electric Trucks for Less than New Tier 4 Diesels

2025-10-28T14:29:00-05:00January 3, 2017|Zero Emission Truck|

All of Orange EV’s on-road truck configurations are now approved under California’s HVIP incentive program KANSAS CITY, Mo., December 20, 2016 – Orange EV today announced that fleets in California can purchase a new T-Series pure electric terminal truck for less than the cost of a new Tier 4 diesel truck. With three new approvals, all of Orange EV’s on-road truck configurations are now eligible for the Hybrid and Zero-Emission Truck and Bus Voucher Incentive Project (HVIP), a streamlined incentive program enabling large point-of-sale discounts. Public, private and federal fleets can utilize HVIP’s pre-approved voucher amounts to save up to [...]

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