EVwire brief: Forum Mobility has opened two Tesla Megachargers at its FM Harbor depot, its electric truck depot in the Port of Long Beach.
The ribbon was cut on November 5, and during the event, its customer IMC Logistics, charged their brand-new production Tesla Semi (which we just wrote about) there.
The company didn’t release the power output, but given the site has 9MW available among its other 44×360kW CCS plug, it’s fair to assume it can go to the full 1.2MW for the Tesla Semi, and push any other incoming MCS-capable e-truck on US roads to its maximum, too.
According to Forum Mobility, the chargers can put back up to 60% of a Semi's range in 30 minutes, and the company says it can charge carriers a cost per mile up to 40% below diesel.
An IMC Logistics Semi got the front-row spot at the ribbon-cutting. Source: Forum Mobility
The Semi in Forum's photos wears IMC Logistics colors. IMC is a Forum customer with an initial 50 Tesla Semis on order, and one of its trucks already carried Forum Mobility branding in Tesla's customer lineup outside the Semi factory in September.
Source: Forum Mobility
Jim Gillis, President of IMC Logistics Pacific Division, spoke at the event:
Long range electric trucks and ultra-fast charging is the next step in zero emission freight. We are proud to partner with Forum Mobility in putting this advanced technology to work for the benefit of our customers. Together, we are delivering lower costs, and lower emissions.
Forum CEO and co-founder Matt LeDucq said the two chargers are the start of a much bigger MCS rollout:
We can fuel with electrons 40% cheaper than diesel, and these are the first of 30 megawatts of MCS chargers we have coming online in the coming months. We are providing a platform for our customers to go further, charge faster, and reduce their cost per mile in a challenging freight environment.
Source: Forum Mobility
Forum's own LinkedIn post summed up the day as "two new chargers. But a very big day for the future of low-cost, zero emission trucking."
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Context:
FM Harbor, the Forum Mobility flagship depot
Forum first showed the Megacharger units arriving at FM Harbor in late August. The depot itself has been running since December 2024 with 44 CCS ports and 9 MW of overall capacity, so the two MCS posts join a site built around CCS.
FM Harbor, the Forum Mobility flagship depot
Forum hasn't given a power rating for the pair. For comparison, Tesla's own public Megacharger sites in Southern California, in Vernon and Bloomington, each run six stalls of up to 1.2 MW. Both sit inland, away from the port terminals.
More MCS is on the way, starting with FM Santa Fe in Rancho Dominguez, which is set to open with 14 pull-through MCS lanes in Q1 2027. That's the depot Forum's earlier Semi customers are lined up for, including Big F Transport with 40 trucks and ATC Logistics with 20.
Santa Fe is one of four new depots Forum has under construction, together with Ontario and two sites in Oakland, adding 30 MW of charging in total, and Tesla will run public Megachargers at three of them. The next tranche covers more of the Inland Empire and Central Valley, plus Las Vegas, Phoenix, Houston, Dallas, Seattle/Tacoma and Chicago.
On the demand side, Forum counts 25 carriers with contracted capacity and reservations for more than 330 Tesla Semis, a figure it tied to FM Santa Fe alone back in September. Across its network, it has over 40 MW of CCS and MCS charging online and under construction.
Sources: Forum Mobility; Forum Mobility on LinkedIn
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