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VOLTA TRUCKS
PRODUCTION
Given its sustainability ambitions,
Volta Trucks will adopt a network manufacturing strategy with a number of assembly facilities distributed across its key geographies, minimising unnecessary transportation and cost. The company recently announced it has ‘expressed an interest’ in manufacturing vehicles at the Decarbonisation
Hub project in the former Nissan manufacturing facilities in Barcelona. Any vehicles manufactured in Spain could potentially serve southern European markets but would not be the first vehicles built. The company
is considering several additional manufacturing locations across Europe, North America and Asia to have the capacity to meet the significant volume ramp up envisaged within the plan.
“To achieve these ambitious goals and timelines, we will work in a very nimble and agile way to ensure our speed to market,” adds Al-Saleh. “We will also need a network of world-class manufacturing facilities. I’m pleased that recently, we expressed an interest to build Volta Zeros in Barcelona and are also investigating several other facilities in Europe, Asia and North America to ensure we can keep up with demand.”
Founder and executive chairman of Volta Trucks, Carl-Magnus Norden, added: “When we created the company, we originally set out to decarbonise logistics operations, and to make city centres safer and more sustainable places to live and work in. But we originally believed that we couldn’t achieve this objective by ourselves,
and we strongly encouraged other manufacturers on their journeys towards zero emissions.
“Over the past months though,
we’ve seen unprecedented demand
in the marketplace, confirming that
our ambition resonates well with our customers, but we've also seen very
few other start-ups or OEMs announcing new fully electric commercial vehicles
in the medium and lower-heavy duty sectors. On this basis, we will have to deliver more of the decarbonisation
of the logistics industry ourselves,
and the launch of four separate fully electric commercial vehicles targeting more than 27,000 truck sales per year
by 2025, just three years after starting production, is a very strong statement of intent to deliver on our original vision."
“To achieve these ambitious goals and timelines, we will work in a very nimble and agile way
to ensure our speed to market”
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