Port of Los Angeles. Source: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Cory J. Mendenhall

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) preliminarily awarded $41 million to the Port of Los Angeles for its zero-emission and near zero-emission freight facilities (ZANZEFF) project.

The total cost for the first phase is $82.6 million, with partners providing 50.2%, or $41.4 million, in match funding.

ZANZEFF is proposed with support from Toyota, Kenworth and Shell and aims to provide a "shore to store" plan and a hydrogen fuel-cell-electric technology framework for freight facilities to structure operations for future goods movement.

The grant from CARB's California Climate Investments program will help support the development and commercialization of clean energy port equipment and drayage trucks, as well as the infrastructure to support it. The project will be developed in several phases, and is expected to include initiatives in Southern California, the central coast area and Merced County.

The project phases will include:

• Ten zero-emissions hydrogen fuel-cell-electric class 8 on-road trucks on the Kenworth T680 platform. The trucks will be developed through a collaboration between Kenworth and Toyota to move cargo from the Los Angeles ports throughout the Los Angeles basin, as well as ultimately to inland locations such as Riverside County, the Port of Hueneme and eventually to Merced. The trucks will be operated by Toyota Logistics Services (4), United Parcel Services (3), Total Transportation Services Inc. (2) and Southern Counties Express (1).
• Two new large-capacity hydrogen fueling stations will be developed by Shell in Wilmington and Ontario, California. The new stations will join three additional stations located at Toyota facilities around Los Angeles to form a fueling network capable of providing more than 1 ton of hydrogen per day at the station to be operated by Shell, enabling zero-emission freight transport. Stations supplied by Air Liquide at Toyota Logistics Services in Long Beach, California, and Toyota Technical Center in Gardena, California, will serve as research and development locations.
• Expanded use of zero-emissions technology in off-road and warehouse equipment, including the first two zero-emissions yard tractors to be operated at the Port of Hueneme, as well as the expanded use of zero-emissions forklifts at Toyota's port warehouse.

Review and input on project implementation will be provided by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the South Coast Air Quality Management District.