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BYD Garbage Truck
Aaron Morrill

Jersey City’s Garbage Trucks go Electric

November 16, 2021/in header, Latest News, Narrate, News /by Aaron Morrill

Largest Municipal DPW Battery Electric Sanitation Truck Fleet Deployment in USA

 

The City of Jersey City has begun taking delivery of five fully electric garbage trucks. According to BYD, this is the first deployment of battery-electric refuse trucks in New Jersey and the largest deployment of battery-electric refuse trucks in the United States to date. The trucks have begun operation in normal duty service, delivery is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

In July of 2020, former Business Administrator Brian Platt told The Jersey City Times how the purchase of the trucks came about. “We won a grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection about a year-and-a-half ago for over $2 million to pay for… electric garbage trucks for the city…the reason why we are so focused on garbage trucks is… these are some of the oldest vehicles that we have, but also they’re the highest polluting vehicles that we have on the road.”

At the time of the purchase, Platt explained that BYD was the only vendor with a model ready for use in the United States.

In what may come as a disappointment to some, however, that the BYD trucks will not replace the noisy diesel truck currently used by Regional Industries, Jersey City’s vendor for regular residential trash and recycling pick-ups. Their use will be more limited. Platt explained, “We do a lot of daytime service to fill in the gaps. We’ll cover the parks. We’ll come back to small business districts and do another round of garbage collection from the garbage cans. So, there’s a lot of other waste removal that we do in addition to the regular residential pickups.”

The BYD refuse trucks are all third-generation equipment and use BYD’s state-of-the-art lithium iron phosphate batteries. The fleet consists two refuse trucks that have a 25-cubic-yard compactor body and three refuse trucks that come with a 10-cubic-yard compactor body. The former carry a 280+ kWh battery pack and have a range of 600 pick-ups plus 60 miles and can be recharged in a little as two and a half hours with DC fast charging. The latter model has a 211 kWh battery pack and a range of 80 miles and can be re-charged in as little as two hours using DC fast charging.

While BYD is headquartered in China, the trucks are being manufactured in their factory in Lancaster, California.

The Jersey City zero-emission battery-electric truck fleet project was developed by Climate Change Mitigation Technologies LLC, a New Jersey-based developer and manager of zero- emission public and private truck and bus fleet projects.

Tom Del Gaudio, Manager of New Truck Sales and Director of electric truck fleet solutions at BYD dealer Hudson County Motors described the experience of using such a truck. “I have driven many different diesel trucks, but battery-electric trucks have more torque and power as well as a smoother ride. These BYD refuse trucks will deliver quiet and pollution-free operations to cities and towns across New Jersey.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

News Briefs

Mayor Steven Fulop joined Public Safety Director James Shea and Fire Chief Steven McGill today to announce two brand new fire companies and officially launch a newly created specialized response team, the JCFD High-rise Unit, to respond to all high-rise fires and all working fires as a Rapid Intervention Crew (RIC).  The last fire company added to the Jersey City Fire Department was in 1937.

The Hudson County Board of Commissioners has provided $195,000 for services provided to inmates through the Housing and Reintegration Program of the Hudson County Department of Family Services. The program provides services that inmates can use for housing, substance abuse treatment, clinical care, mental health, obtain medications and go to job training and job search services.

This program also provides the County Department of Housing and Community Reintegration access to 40 transitional housing beds. The program runs from June 1, 2022 through January 31, 2023.

Mayor Fulop has announced the creation of a $20 per hour Living Wage Statute for all full-time Jersey City employees. As part of the City’s 2022-2023 fiscal year budget, the Living Wage Statute will boost salaries for hundreds of current and future Jersey City residents and workers from $17 (already one of the highest minimum wage rates in the nation) to $20 per hour – which is $7 more than New Jersey’s current hourly minimum wage.

 

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