ChargEVC Releases 2026 Roadmap to Support Vehicle Electrification
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Release event highlights how electric vehicles support grid and the successes of the NJZIP program at Hermann Services
South Brunswick, NJ — Standing beside a Class 8 electric truck, the leaders of New Jersey’s electric vehicle industry gathered to mark what they called an inflection point — not just for clean transportation, but for the state’s energy future. ChargEVC released its 2026 Roadmap. The Roadmap covers both light-duty vehicles and medium–and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), addresses private and fleet applications, and introduces a sharpened focus on affordability, grid readiness, and energy cost reduction as key pillars of the EV transition.
“Affordability is an urgent issue for hardworking New Jersey families,” said Pam Frank, CEO of ChargEVC. “We know that owning an electric vehicle can insulate owners from volatile gas prices, like we’re seeing now,” said Frank. “What might surprise people is that investment in charging infrastructure and incentives for electric vehicles as a matter of state policy when done right can actually help reduce costs across the board,” Frank continued.
The event highlighted how state programs, including New Jersey Zero-Emission Incentive Program, have helped companies like Hermann Services add electric trucks to their fleet and how they fit into a broader policy agenda to help lower costs and improve grid reliability.
Dawn Neville, Senior Manager, Electric Transportation at PSEG, highlighted how the utility’s work with Hermann Services and similar projects in the future could provide cost savings for all ratepayers. “Hermann Services is going to install integrated battery storage, combining that with managed charging supports both the grid and Hermann’s charging operations,” Neville said. “But, most importantly, the combination of managed charging and integrated storage can help customers better manage energy use and utility costs.”
In the lobby of Hermann Services’s South Brunswick headquarters, portraits of Fred and Myrtle Hermann, who founded the company in 1927, keep watch over the company’s first truck which was used to transport watermelons for the Great A&P Supermarket. Hermann has come a long way since then and is now working to expand their electric fleet from one to 16 trucks with support from the NJ ZIP program, which is funded by Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative proceeds.
Jeff Hermann, CEO of Hermann Services, praised the program, “We have to compliment the great work and efforts by New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJ EDA) and that of NJ ZIP,” Hermann said. “The program has helped provide adequate and sufficient funding to ensure that we as a company can continue to move forward with the introduction of these electric vehicles.”
“Electric vehicles are good for our grid,” said Doug O’Malley, Executive Director of Environment New Jersey and ChargEVC board member. “If you care about grid stability and you care about lowering electric rates, we need to find ways to go electric,” O’Malley continued. “We’re not just looking at an electric truck behind us–we’re looking at a battery on wheels,” said O’Malley. He added, “and that’s ultimately the key recommendation that’s coming from the third version of the roadmap–ensuring that we are expanding bidirectional charging.” Managed bidirectional charging enables vehicles to be charged during off-peak hours and then, when electric demand is higher, feed stored power to homes, businesses or back to the grid.
Hermann highlighted some of the challenges that are ahead, including building more robust charging infrastructure. “We need to build strong public-private partnerships to ensure that, as electric vehicles continue to take more and more market share throughout the US, there is a path forward to ensuring that there are public charging stations,” he said.
You can learn more about the Roadmap here.