Pepsico explaining how it uses Tesla Semi electric trucks

foreign [Music] very excited to be here in Sacramento California with Pepsi this is a very busy site like a lot of Freight Logistics locations are it's open 24 7 moving beverages around Northern California so if you thought these Tesla semis were a bit like bigfoots maybe you heard about them maybe you saw a picture a fuzzy one but you weren't sure they were real or not we're here to show you that they are real they're hauling real beverages for Pepsi here in Northern California zero emission delivering Goods every day of our locations that really embodies our commitment to climate and our PepsiCo positive ambition the facility is powered by solar we've got 21 Tesla electric semis they're Associated for 750 kilowatt Chargers electric yard tractors electric e-transits and lithium-ion forklifts inside the warehouse here battery electric vehicles are essential for us and it's really grounded in our duty cycle I.E how we use our assets because the good majority of our business is anchored in going to Market we deliver predominantly under 100 miles on a daily basis and run those vehicles around 12 hours a day so with that duty cycle we feel that the battery electric vehicle is most advantageous and our decarbonization strategy it's a fairly mixed Fleet but majority of our Fleet in terms of Pepsi is Class 8 heavy duty tractors city transportation which we refer to as delivery is more localized more Regional so typically on an average day a driver might stop between 8 to 12 destinations along the Route the unique thing is that those tractors for the most part sit idle overnight so majority of those routes are done from very early morning into the afternoon in terms of the transport side of the business these are much longer routes so out of our 21 assets of Tesla semi that we have here three of them are dedicated to the Long Haul over the road routes the routes may change or may vary between let's call it 250 50 miles up to 450 miles so we have been aggressive to push the limit and demonstrate that we are able to achieve a very high range with a fully loaded tractor with that Fleet we have two shifts we have drivers that start between one in the morning to four in the morning and then our second shift slip seats starting around between one and three in the afternoon lease service is pretty much the Central Valley in the northern California as far as transport is concerned I could be loaded both ways if I go to Bakersfield and I just do one day because the DLT hour is allowed to be driven if I go to fresn I go to Fresno come here and then I could take a Geo route to Yuba City and drop it off so it just depends on how far my first round is but the massive charger that we have you know 20 minutes 30 minutes and it's back up to 95 percent from like five or ten so the turnaround is quick we knew that this was a transformative project we also knew we wanted it here in Sacramento and we committed right then internally to this Project's success it was a three-year process so we had to bring near three megawatts of new service to the facility at the time the site was actually running off of one substation meaning that for the project it added benefit to the facility in that we were able to Loop into another substation as well in terms of just adding resiliency but the infrastructure for the semi-fleet is based on its own single service and meter when you're doing a fleet project which is of this scale you need a dedicated service you need a dedicated service so that you can take advantage of specific Fleet electrification rates it also serves you well for your lcfs credits for your accounting and not co-mingling that with other load in addition to the 750 kilowatt Chargers there are also other assets other electric assets as well as charging on site those other charging Solutions we were able to pull off of existing power from the facility from our service however given the load of which is required to run the semis in charge at the times that we need zero to eighty percent in 45 minutes we required a lot more integration and work to be done with that infrastructure good infrastructure design serves the customer and serves the utility I think the trick is what's the right combination to manage that power that load how can we set that up in a way that meets operational needs but is also beneficial for the grid and our customers in keeping infrastructure costs low whether that's on-site battery whether that's automated load management software that's minimizing the the power distribution amongst different vehicles and load sharing based on operational needs even though new service applications and process is something that is not new sometimes working with the utility is not easy and that really helps when you have an advocate that's in there with you during the project and so we were there and the interconnection of the battery was something new for us and so it was really good that we had that level of collaboration with both Pepsi and Tesla this is a very big deal this is going to revolutionize how the trucking industry goes to Market in the future and PepsiCo is on the Forefront of it it's very very important that we get it right and we do everything we can to make sure we run on less these types of deployments and and the knowledge that you gained from them is hugely valuable for us to see if the tools that we're using are accurate but perhaps more importantly on on the cost side how these vehicles are charging when they're charging what the overall charging profiles look like day to day getting these real world data points are just hugely valuable in the early going here one of the biggest values and drivers of efficiency for the Tesla semi is the tandem axle it's supported by both the torque axle as well as the efficiency axle the combination of these two allows for flexibility and range Improvement and strength across both a shorter mile local delivery setting and drive as well as a long haul over-the-road transport setting what's unique about Electric is that now we're looking at data around the battery itself and the motor so data that we look to pull includes the real-time state of charge of that battery so how much charge is left in the battery at any given time and then while that vehicle is driving or while it's charging looking at either the energy being drawn out of that battery for propulsion and the energy that's coming back into the battery when it's charging or when it's regenerative braking regen is is a huge benefit for us I think overall when it comes to the transformation to Electric we've seen very strong efficiencies and performance based off the region of the Tesla semis for example going across Donner's Pass and back from here to Nevada we're able to on the trip back actually zero out in terms of state of charge improving due to regenerative braking which for us is is massive that extends range for us in a way that is invaluable in terms of the region the efficiency of the tractor and the routes that we're taking as well as the drivers that have been enabled for the past several months we've been able to stay below 1.7 kilowatt hours per mile in terms of efficiency of this Fleet I was driving to the Bay Area a couple months ago and one of these Pepsi Teslas came up beside me in it and I I had to grab the wheel because I kept looking over I just couldn't believe it I had heard the announcement about them being deployed here in Sacramento but you know to see them out in the road in the wild was uh yeah is this really great it's a real sense of Pride I think for the community we're first in the world to have Teslas and to be part of that is exciting I started two in the afternoon so I'm a swing shift driver I've been driving it for about three or four months now and yeah we get questions every time we go to a different facility people see us long haul drivers there they ask questions and I tell them it's just you know it's so comfortable it's so easy to drive you're so close to the front of the tractor your visibility is amazing I come from a family truck driver it's my grandfather my uncles my dad they're all doing truck drivers I grew up on a truck I love being on the road it's my favorite thing I love it I do about 400 plus miles a day being in a good track comfortable Drive Great it makes a world of difference on my day you know but I don't hurt as much as soon as I got this I was like it just feels good I actually volunteered because I was really excited to drive the electric truck I'm not a techie person so I was a little I mean I was afraid of the iPhone when it first came out there's no switches and gauges in the cab of the truck so I had to strictly go off the monitors and within a half hour I was comfortable if you know how to use a smartphone then you could easily operate one of these trucks the turn radius is awesome it's better than in my car it's a lot more comfortable they're quieter they're smoother they look nicer they don't look as intimidating I think when they see other women doing it then that will give them maybe some motivation to want to get into it I think with this they would be a little bit more comfortable considering driving a big rig you know hopefully seeing projects like this and seeing other fleets lead the way will encourage maybe smaller fleets or fleets that have been less excited in the past to kind of come along as a PepsiCo organization we have some very bold emissions reduction Ambitions 75 percent by 2030 and 100 by 2040 under our PepsiCo positive umbrella where we are today with the Tesla semis we have we're close to about 50 percent of the transformation to Electric when it comes to finishing that out we will be building through the rest of the depot putting in expanded charging to satisfy 100 of an electric Fleet here load flexibility being able to interact with our grid in a way that we really haven't seen loads interact with our grid before is that next Frontier in this in this journey and I think that will add a significant value proposition to fleets as well as to SMUD as electric utility I mean being able to to balance out supply and demand is huge that's any Electric utilities end goal currently our plan is to scale so everything both flight Duty medium duty heavy duty we as a company are focused on on building out our internal networks in order to extend range build out new Depots outside of just the test the test margin we are Bill robust own charging Network work which is no small undertaking so it's an incredible amount of lead time and leg work to go engage the utility secure the availability permit and deliver the construction and erect the hardware itself followed by commissioning testing interoperability so we're planning about 18 months and trying to work up to two years ahead in our total PepsiCo owned infrastructure installation and strategy to continue to support at the time of scaled availability the assets that serve our Fleet given the construction given the utility given the complexity and that lead time it is easier for us to move a holistic project forward one time I.E touch it once when you're ingraining that much of an energy pole that many different collaborators to one location we have now determined hindsight 2020 it is best and most efficient to go fully deploy evse with that first touch but I think we'll find in our future locations we develop holistically the entire Depot rather than a component or conservative element another foreign

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Published: Mon Aug 07 2023