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Field notes on fleet electrification
Engineering-honest writing on depot charging, service capacity, and what it really takes to electrify a fleet, before the capital is committed.
- August 14, 2026 What Depot Charging Actually Costs in California (And Why the Tariff Decides Everything) A researcher's LinkedIn post mapped the diesel-vs-electricity savings gap by market. We ran the cost side on two real PG&E tariffs, and the tariff, not the electricity, decided the answer.
- July 20, 2026 Real Numbers From Real Depots: What Electrification Actually Costs Four illustrative depot scenarios, worked through with real methodology, showing how capacity screening changes the cost and timeline of fleet electrification.
- July 6, 2026 Data Centers Just Learned the Lesson Depot Operators Are Still Ignoring AI data centers are discovering that power availability, not equipment, decides where and when they can build. Fleet depots hit the same wall years ago.
- June 22, 2026 When a Battery Solves Your Capacity Problem, and When It Just Delays It Behind-the-meter battery storage can bridge a depot's capacity gap. It can also mask a problem you'll still have to solve later.
- June 8, 2026 Nobody Is Coming to Size Your Depot's Grid Connection For You Public charging gets regulatory attention and funding targets. Depot charging capacity is left almost entirely to the operator.
- May 25, 2026 The Two Clocks in Fleet Electrification (and Why Only One Can Be Rushed) Vehicle delivery and grid connection run on separate timelines, and only one of them speeds up with money.
- May 11, 2026 You Probably Don't Need the Grid Upgrade You Think You Need Most depot capacity estimates assume every vehicle plugs in at once. That assumption alone is why so many fleets think they need an upgrade they don't.
- April 27, 2026 Why Fleet Electrification Fails in the Same Order, Every Time Vehicles, then chargers, then site, then grid: the standard sequence is backwards. Here's the order that actually works.
- April 13, 2026 Fleet Depot Service Capacity: The Real EV Charging Constraint The real EV charging constraint for fleet depots isn't charger count; it's service capacity. Here's what it is and how to check it before you commit capital.