Electric truck operator Nevoya is expanding its deal with Meta with the fresh deployment of 25 Class 8 battery-electric trucks on the Interstate 10 (I-10) between San Bernardino, California and Phoenix, Arizona … but Meta won’t be shipping any products.
The second major trucking deal between Facebook parent company Meta and electric truck operator Nevoya will put 25 new battery-electric semis on I-10, running freight between San Bernardino, California and Phoenix, Arizona. But Meta isn’t buying trucks, hiring drivers or shipping its own products. Instead, Zuck’s company helping pay for someone else’s cleaner freight through environmental attribute certificates (EACs), a carbon credit mechanism that lets companies claim the emissions benefits of electric trucking without operating the trucks themselves.
“Coming back to Nevoya for a second corridor reflects what we look for in our value chain work: partners that can scale, and agreements we can repeat, said Devon Lake, Head of Net Zero Strategy, Meta. “Freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating our data centers, and multi-year commitments like this help address our scope 3 emissions and make electric trucking available and competitive on the routes that serve the regions where we build.”…