Ten battery-electric yard tractors are now in operation at a container terminal in Port Newark, New Jersey. Red Hook Container Terminals on Aug. 11 held a ribbon-cutting to announce the official deployment of the BYD Motors yard tractors. The announcement said it is the single largest deployment of battery-electric trucks in the eastern United States and the first such deployment at a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey marine terminal.
The heavy-duty zero emission battery electric yard tractors are being used to move cargo containers at the Red Hook Marine Terminal in Port Newark:
In addition, Red Hook operates a cross-harbor barging operation between its facilities in Port Newark and Red Hook Brooklyn, which removes an estimated 30,000 truck trips from New Jersey and New York City streets every year, reducing local diesel truck air pollution and C02 emissions. Five of the yard tractors are being used for sea container movement from the cross-harbor barging operation. The other five go to the other terminals and to the Millennium Rail yard to pick up and drop off containers.