There will soon be a new kind of electric vehicle going around east Portland: an all-electric garbage truck.

COR Disposal and Recycling, along with Portland General Electric, unveiled Oregon’s first electric garbage truck on Thursday. The zero-emissions truck, which was mostly funded through PGE’s Drive Change Fund, can hold a charge for two days’ worth of residential garbage pickups, which is about 10 hours a day. The company’s current garbage trucks, which use diesel fuel, need about 40 gallons for the same amount of work.

Alando Simpson is COR’s CEO, which formerly operated as City of Roses Disposal and Recycling. He said the truck is a major milestone for the industry.

“They’re around all hours of the day and all hours of the night,” he said. “They go through all different parts of our community, whether residential areas, commercial areas, industrial areas.”

PGE’s Drive Change Fund, which focuses on electrifying the transportation sector, receives money through the state’s Clean Fuels Program.

Simpson said the company hopes electric trucks can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air quality in local neighborhoods.