Retail News CRM

Tag: volta truck

  • Germany’s DB Schenker To Order 1,500 Electric Trucks From Sweden’s Volta

    Germany’s DB Schenker To Order 1,500 Electric Trucks From Sweden’s Volta

    Deutsche Bahn’s logistics unit Schenker will order almost 1,500 electric trucks from startup Volta Trucks to transport goods from European terminals into city centres and urban areas, the companies said on Tuesday. DB Schenker will use prototype electric trucks in the spring and summer of 2022 in distribution operations, findings from which will be used in the production of 1,470 electric trucks. Those trucks will be made at a former MAN truck plant in Austria that was taken over by Steyr Automotive. The electric trucks will operate at 10 DB Schenker locations in five countries.

    The companies didn’t immediately provide details on the transaction’s value.

    Stockholm-based Volta Trucks, which also operates in the UK, plans to start production of the Volta Zero, a 16-tonne electric truck, in 2022. Bans on fossil-fuel commercial vehicles will take effect in some European cities over the next few years, putting pressure on logistics providers to find zero-emission alternatives.

    “The large-scale partnership with Volta Trucks allows us to significantly increase the pace of electrification of our fleet and invest in greener transport solutions,” Cyrille Bonjean, DB Schenker’s executive vice president for land transport in Europe, said in a statement. DB Schenker has around 74,200 employees in over 130 countries. The latest order brings Volta Trucks’ order book to around 4,500 electric trucks. It previous biggest public order was for 1,000 trucks, from French refrigerated truck firm Petit Forestier.

    Lees ook:

    Lees ook:

  • Production Starts On The First Road-Going Full-Electric Volta Zero Vehicles

    Production Starts On The First Road-Going Full-Electric Volta Zero Vehicles

    Volta Trucks has begun production of the first road-going ‘Design Verification’ (DV) prototype Volta Zero vehicle at a bespoke facility in Coventry, UK. The DV prototypes are the first full-electric Volta Zero vehicles to be built in the recently unveiled production-ready design. A total of 25 vehicles will be manufactured and once completed in January, the fleet will embark on a rigorous testing regime. This will involve Volta Trucks engineers replicating a wide range of customer usage and delivery cycles, as well as taking the Volta Zero to the extremes of cold weather environments in the Arctic, hot weathers in equatorial conditions, and crash testing, all to validate the safety, durability, and reliability of the vehicle.

    The results of the comprehensive DV testing program will be fed into the final prototype stage – ‘Production Verification’ (PV). The PV prototype vehicles will be built at the company’s new manufacturing plant in Steyr, Austria, in mid-2022. Many of these production-specification prototypes will be lent to selected customers for extended periods to be tested in their real-world logistics conditions, undertaking millions of delivery kilometers, alongside Volta Trucks’ own engineers.

    Ian Collins, Chief Product Officer of Volta Trucks, said; “In August, the first Volta Zero rolling chassis started testing, and we’ve already extracted huge amounts of data from that vehicle. We have integrated that feedback into the Design Verification prototypes that start production today. We now move into a rapid test – learn – iterate – develop phase. This is going to be far more condensed and intensive than a normal vehicle testing program, given our ambitious timeline to start series production in a year’s time, which is driven by customers’ needs for zero-emission trucks.

    This will take us to some of the hottest, coldest, and most extreme conditions in the world, all to ensure that the product specification vehicles that roll off the production line by the end of 2022 deliver the highest possible quality standards and exceed our customers’ expectations.”

    Lees ook:

    Lees ook: