Electric freight carrier Nevoya announced on November 12 a multi-year agreement with Meta that will support the deployment of 25 Class 8 battery-electric trucks on Interstate 10 between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, Arizona — one of the busiest freight corridors in the American Southwest, and a route Punjabi and other long-haul truckers in California know well.
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Meta is not buying the trucks, hiring the drivers or shipping its own freight on them. Instead, Meta will purchase environmental attribute certificates, known as EACs, which represent the environmental attributes of Nevoya's battery-electric freight service. Companies buy EACs to address emissions in their value chains, including logistics — the arrangement is often described as “book and claim,” because the buyer claims the emissions benefit of electric trucking without its own goods ever riding on the truck, as Electrek explained in its November 13 coverage of the deal.
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The deal also includes bringing new electric-truck charging infrastructure online along the corridor. The charging for the 25 trucks will be matched 100 percent with renewable energy certificates, and Nevoya says it expects the charging infrastructure to be available to all freight operators on the corridor — not only to its own fleet.
A second corridor, after Texas
This is Meta's second agreement with Nevoya. In Texas, Meta was one of several buyers in the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) buyers' alliance, whose collective EAC purchases support Nevoya's 63-truck deployment on the Houston–Dallas corridor. The new I-10 agreement is a standalone deal between Nevoya and Meta alone, and the companies say it gives Meta a framework to unlock additional electric-trucking corridors in the future.
“Meta coming back for a second corridor is a strong signal that this model works,” said John Verdon, Nevoya's co-founder and chief commercial officer. He said electric trucks already win on the corridors Nevoya runs, and that multi-year demand is what unlocks them at scale. Devon Lake, Meta's head of net zero strategy, said freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating Meta's data centres, and that commitments like this help address the company's scope 3 emissions on the routes that serve the regions where it builds.
Why Interstate 10 matters
Interstate 10 is the major high-capacity east–west corridor across the southern United States. It links the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach — where a large share of America's container imports arrive — to Phoenix, El Paso, Houston and the Gulf Coast. San Bernardino and the wider Inland Empire, at the California end of the new route, form one of the largest warehousing and distribution hubs in North America, and the corridor is a key route for moving data centre construction materials across the southern states, according to Nevoya.
Class 8 battery-electric trucks produce no tailpipe emissions and run quieter than diesel trucks, which the company says can reduce local noise and air pollutants such as nitrogen oxides, PM2.5 and diesel particulates along the route — a live issue for the warehouse communities of the Inland Empire and for drivers who spend their working days on the corridor.
Nothing changes for diesel drivers today: the Nevoya trucks are expected to start running in 2027 and will haul general freight for the carrier's customers. Two parts of the deal matter to the wider industry — the corridor charging is planned to be open to every operator, and big shippers are now paying for electric capacity years ahead through certificates, which is how small fleets' future electric work is likely to be financed.
Neither company disclosed the financial value of the agreement or how long it runs beyond describing it as multi-year. Nevoya describes itself as an AI-native electric truckload carrier. What happens next is the build-out: trucks and chargers are expected to be in place for a 2027 start, covering roughly four million freight miles a year between California and Arizona.