FUTURE MODELS
Volvo Trucks fast delivering a quieter and electric future
Volvo has joined the race to get fully-electric trucks to the global market
Picture caption: A study in Stockholm revealed that night-time deliveries can cut the time for transport assignments by one third Picture caption: Claes Nilsson, president of Volvo Trucks If you believe the hype, then 2019 will be the year in which Tesla launches its Semi, the brand’s first full-electric truck in the US. Given Tesla’s serious production issues and haemorrhaging of cash it seems ambitious, but the company is keen to be the first to market. Meanwhile, other manufacturers are putting bringing their plans to fruition, with a number of alternative drivetrain models already available in various global markets. It does look as though 2019 will be the year in which the battle really begins, though, with Volvo announcing that it will start selling electric trucks in Europe in 2019 and saying that the first units will already be put into operation with selected reference customers as early as 2018. this year. Electric trucks drastically reduce noise and exhaust emissions and ...
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