CEO of Midwest Sales and Services Inc. Heath Wechter shakes hands with CCO of GE Appliances Rick Hasselbeck as the two companies make the announcement.
In Kentucky, the trucks will travel from the company’s Kentucky Logistics Center to GEA’s massive Appliance Park campus, carrying parts that make GE, GE Profile, and Café refrigerators.
GE Appliances, a Haier company, today announced the deployment of electric freight vehicles in Kentucky, Georgia, and Tennessee on heavily used routes between its U.S. plants and logistics centers leading the charge for a more sustainable future.
The trucks have a range of 200 miles per charge and will cover an estimated 125,000 miles annually – eliminating 210 tons of CO2 emissions within the first year.
GE Appliances will be using newly installed chargers and portable chargers for the new Einride trucks. The trucks have a range of 200 miles per charge and will cover an estimated 125,000 miles annually.
GE Appliances adds fleet of electric trucks furthering its commitment to more sustainable operations in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia. The trucks from Einride will operate on high-frequency routes in the company’s U.S. supply chain.
The Einride autonomous pod was tested for the first time in in the U.S. Oct. 2021 on private roads between the five manufacturing facilities at GE Appliances headquarters in Louisville KY
