Six wind farm facilities across Oklahoma, Texas and Illinois have been installed with charging stations as part of Apex Clean Energy’s deployment project with Boston-based XL Fleet Corp, according to a company press release issued Wednesday.
The equipment includes 12 dual-port, level 2 chargers that were installed at the designated wind farms. The charging infrastructure has been added to power a fleet of ten Ford F-series pickups equipped with XL Fleet plug-in hybrid electric drive systems that Apex extended in its service fleet earlier this year, which was previously announced back in April. The stations are intended to prepare the facilities for additional EV investments moving forward as Apex continues to invest in meeting its sustainability goals through vehicle electrification.
“Apex continues to invest heavily in our commitment to sustainability and driving the clean energy economy and working with XL Fleet as our electrification partner has enabled us to move forward quickly on our EV strategy,” said Mark Goodwin, president and CEO of Apex Clean Energy.
“XL Fleet is committed to helping Apex and other sustainability-minded companies to accelerate their path to electrification, even in rural areas where access to EVs has been extremely limited,” said Eric Tech, CEO of XL Fleet. “This is a great example of how XL Fleet is leveraging our experience and our solution suite to help customers remove barriers to electrification, gain access to charging infrastructure and move forward on achieving their comprehensive sustainability goals.”