San Francisco startup TeraWatt Infrastructure on Thursday introduced it is growing the primary community of electrical vehicle-charging facilities for heavy-duty and medium-duty vehicles alongside the Interstate 10 freeway, stretching from Lengthy Seaside, California, to the El Paso, Texas, space.

The corporate, which raised greater than $1 billion this yr to construct charging infrastructure, stated the services will probably be situated about 150 miles aside and fewer than one mile from the closest freeway exits throughout California, Arizona and New Mexico.

Medium and heavy vehicles make up solely about 4% of autos within the U.S., however due to their bigger measurement and larger journey distances the autos devour greater than 25% of complete freeway gasoline and symbolize almost 30% of freeway carbon emissions, based on the Division of Vitality.

“Whereas there’s a restricted variety of electrical long-haul vehicles on the highway as we speak, these autos are coming prior to we predict and we’d like the charging infrastructure to be prepared,” TeraWatt CEO Neha Palmer advised CNBC.

TeraWatt’s charging facilities will characteristic dozens of direct present quick chargers, pull-through charging stalls and on-site driver facilities for long-haul and native electric-trucking operations, the corporate stated. The primary websites are set to come back on-line in 2023.

The announcement comes after the Biden administration this yr rolled out a plan to allocate $5 billion to states to fund EV chargers alongside interstate highways as a part of the bipartisan infrastructure bundle.

In September, the Division of Transportation permitted EV-charging station plans for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico overlaying about 75,000 miles of highways. States even have entry to greater than $1.5 billion to assist assemble the chargers.

The Biden administration has set a goal for EVs to make up half of all new car gross sales by 2030 and has pledged to exchange its federal fleet with electrical energy by 2035.