With the gross sales of three new heavy-duty all-electric fashions, Volvo Trucks believes the time is true for a fast upswing in electrification of heavy highway transport. This outlook relies on the power of Volvo’s electrical vans to fulfill a broad number of transport wants. In Europe for instance, nearly half of all truck transports may very well be electrified within the close to future.
 
Massive nationwide and worldwide transport patrons are exhibiting robust curiosity in electrical autos. That is being pushed by their very own formidable local weather objectives, in addition to customers demand for decarbonization and cleaner transports.
 
“Increasingly more transport corporations are realizing they should begin their electrification journey proper now, each with the surroundings in thoughts and for aggressive causes to fulfill buyer necessities for sustainable delivery. With our extensive and deep providing, it’s completely possible for a lot extra transport corporations to go electrical,” says Roger Alm, President of Volvo Vehicles.

Including three extra heavy responsibility vans to the electrical line-up

With the gross sales begin of the brand new electrical Volvo FH and Volvo FM fashions, electrified transport is now attainable not just for city areas but in addition for regional site visitors between cities. As well as, the brand new electrical Volvo FMX mannequin is creating new methods to make development transport operations each quieter and cleaner.
 
Manufacturing of the brand new electrical fashions for Europe will begin within the second half of 2022. They be a part of the Volvo FL Electrical and Volvo FE Electrical for city transports which were in serial manufacturing since 2019 for a similar market. In North America, gross sales of the Volvo VNR Electrical began in December 2020. With the gross sales begin of the brand new truck fashions, Volvo Vehicles now has a line-up of six medium and heavy responsibility electrical vans, which makes it essentially the most full industrial electrical truck vary within the trade.

With the addition of the brand new merchandise with larger load capacities, extra highly effective drivelines and a vary of as much as 300 km, Volvo Vehicles’ electrical portfolio might cowl round 45 % of all items transported in Europe right this moment. This makes it attainable to make an vital contribution to decrease the local weather impression from highway freights, which in accordance with official statistics account for about 6 % of complete CO2 emissions within the EU.
 
“There’s large potential to affect truck transports in Europe, and in addition in different elements of the world, within the very close to future,” says Roger Alm. “To show this, we now have set the formidable purpose to have electrical vans account for half of our gross sales in Europe by 2030. And these three new heavy-duty vans we at the moment are launching mark an enormous step in direction of reaching this goal.”