Public charging for electric semi trucks is still rare. Most class-8 battery tractors still charge at a private depot. Greenlane is one of the operators trying to change that with a public, corridor-based network for commercial ZEVs — including medium-duty vans and class-8 electric trucks.
Who Greenlane is
Greenlane is a joint venture of Daimler Truck North America, NextEra Energy Resources, and BlackRock (through a fund managed by its Climate Infrastructure business).
The company’s stated mission is to design, build, and operate a nationwide public high-speed charging network for commercial vehicles — not passenger Superchargers, and not a private depot that only one fleet can use.
Colton, California — the flagship that is open
Greenlane’s first large public truck site opened in April 2025 in Colton, California, at the I-10 / I-215 freight confluence in the Inland Empire.
What operators and Greenlane itself have published about Colton:
- A mix of pull-through high-power lanes (about 400 kW) and bobtail lanes (about 180–240 kW)
- Driver amenities: restrooms, Wi-Fi, security, parking
- Designed to grow (Greenlane has discussed scaling toward ~60 stalls and roughly 12 MW nameplate over time)
- Future-proofed for Megawatt Charging System (MCS) hardware — Colton’s live stalls today are CCS-class high-power, not a 1.2 MW MCS plaza
Greenlane has also said the Colton site is built so it can later add 1 MW-class MCS as trucks and the standard mature. Treat that as a published plan, not as a plug you can count on this week.
Corridors, not random pins
Greenlane’s public strategy is corridors, not one-off lots:
- I-15 Los Angeles–Las Vegas — Colton plus planned sites in the Barstow and Baker areas, spaced roughly 60–90 miles apart
- I-10 toward Phoenix — a second corridor Greenlane has announced from the Inland Empire east
- Texas — Greenlane announced network expansion into Texas in 2026
That spacing is meant to match real class-8 electric range on a loaded trailer, not a passenger-car road trip.
What it is not
- It is not Tesla’s Megacharger network. Greenlane is a separate public CPO with Daimler Truck in the ownership group.
- It is not a walk-up 1.2 MW MCS hub today at Colton. MCS is on the roadmap.
- It is not automatically on every load. Check the EV Semi charging map and the host’s access rules.
How it fits an Electric Semi load
If you run or hire electric semi trucks, a public corridor site is useful when:
- The tractor is not going home to a depot that night
- The lane is I-10 / I-15 Inland Empire or a corridor Greenlane actually has energized
- The truck can use CCS at the power level posted on site
Sources: drivegreenlane.com, Greenlane “Road to Megawatt Charging,” Daimler Truck North America corridor announcement, ABB/Greenlane Colton project notes.