Nissan’s new electric truck charging station is a UK first

An electric truck charging station that could save 1,500 tonnes of CO2 a year has gone live at Nissan’s manufacturing plant in Sunderland.

The project is said to be a first in the UK automotive industry, establishing an electric, end-to-end supply chain that transports materials into the Nissan plant and delivers finished vehicles out.

The £1.4 million facility has seven charging stations, capable of powering up to 10 eHGVs simultaneously. It complements the plant’s EV36Zero vision for sustainable manufacturing, bringing together electric vehicles, renewable energy and battery production.

The station will support 60 UK eHGV deliveries to the plant daily and represents just the start of the plant’s journey towards electrifying its supply chain.

Nissan said it is exploring further opportunities to allow other hauliers to use the charging station.

The charging station will support a fleet of 25 trucks with a charging capacity of up to 360kW. The trucks will collect parts from Nissan’s UK supply base stretching as far afield as Derby; as well as delivering finished vehicles to and from the Port of Tyne.

That equates to more than 2.4 million kilometres travelled per year, fully electrified, saving 1,500 tonnes of CO2 annually.