Volta Trucks receives over 1,400 truck pre-order from DB Schenker
By Bradley Osborne - 29th November 2021
Sweden / Germany – Volta Trucks AB, a designer of electric truck concepts based in Stockholm, Sweden, has received a pre-order for nearly 1,500 ‘Volta Zero’ trucks from DB Schenker, the logistics division of Deutsche Bahn AG based in Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The company claims it is the biggest order for large zero-emission trucks in Europe to date. DB Schenker is set to begin pilot testing in the spring and summer of next year.
Volta Trucks has also announced that production of ‘Design Verification’ prototypes has started at its facility in Coventry, UK. 25 vehicles are to be manufactured and rigorously tested early next year. Immediately following, the first ‘Product Verification’ prototypes will be built at a plant in Steyr, Upper Austria.1 Pilot tests of these vehicles with customers such as DB Schenker will help to inform the serial production of the Volta Zero.
