Electric truck operator Nevoya will put 25 new Class 8 battery-electric semis on Interstate 10 between San Bernardino, California, and Phoenix, in a second major deal with Meta, Electrek reported. Meta is not buying the trucks, hiring the drivers or shipping its own products on the route. Instead, the company is helping pay for cleaner freight through environmental attribute certificates, a carbon-credit mechanism that lets a company claim the emissions benefits of electric trucking without operating the trucks. Nevoya expects the I-10 trucks to start running in 2027 and to cover about 4 million freight miles a year.
"Coming back to Nevoya for a second corridor reflects what we look for in our value chain work: partners that can scale, and agreements we can repeat," said Devon Lake, Meta's head of net zero strategy. "Freight is part of the emissions footprint of building and operating our data centers, and multi-year commitments like this help address our scope 3 emissions and make electric trucking available and competitive on the routes that serve the regions where we build." Meta was one of several buyers in a Center for Green Market Activation alliance whose certificate purchases supported Nevoya's initial 63-truck deployment on the Houston-Dallas corridor in May. The new agreement is a standalone deal between Nevoya and Meta only, and is meant to give Meta a framework for opening more electric truck corridors later.
The Houston-Dallas run was described by the activation center as "the first large-scale application of book and claim to zero-emission trucking." The structure is designed to let client companies support electric freight where it is commercially useful, rather than only on lanes where they themselves have cargo. That is why a company with no goods to move on I-10 can still underwrite trucks that will run there. The certificates are not the same thing as Meta operating a private electric fleet, and the 2027 start date means the 25 trucks are not on the highway yet.
The verified news is a second Meta-Nevoya certificate deal, 25 trucks, an I-10 corridor, a 2027 start and a 4-million-mile annual estimate. It is not evidence that Meta has bought a fleet of electric semis, and it is not a count of emissions already avoided on that route. GMA has described book-and-claim certificates as a way for companies to overcome barriers to EV freight while letting Nevoya put trucks "where they deliver the strongest commercial and operational value," which is the logic behind a second corridor that Meta is underwriting without having cargo of its own to move on I-10.