volta trucks

Paneltex boasts thirty years of engineering expertise and a comprehensive portfolio of manufacturing techniques and top-quality products to the venture, producing thousands of vehicle bodies, vehicle body kits, and portable cold stores a year out of six specialised factories across the UK.

The supply agreement follows a project in which Carrier Transicold engineers worked closely with the Volta Trucks development team to integrate engineless ‘Iceland’ all-electric refrigeration systems and PowerBox technology into the new Volta Zero.

According to the plans, Volta Trucks will initially introduce a Pilot Fleet of 100 Class 7 trucks in mid-2023 that will be evaluated by US customers, starting in Los Angeles in mid-2023, with additional cities to follow, ahead of a roll out of production vehicles in 2024. Smaller variants will follo...

The 7.5- and 12-ton vehicles will be visually identical at the front, with the 12-ton vehicle having a longer chassis and body, and second set of rear wheels and tyres, to accommodate the increased vehicle payload. Series production due to commence in early 2025.

The Volta Trucks Hub in Paris will operate eight workshop bays for the routine servicing of vehicles, including the new and innovative equipment needed to keep full-electric commercial vehicles well maintained, to minimize downtime. The Hub will also host admin offices, a Volta Trucks Academy traini...

«The completion of our winter testing programme is another major milestone in our journey towards the start of production of the Volta Zero», commented Ian Collins, Chief Product Officer of Volta Trucks. «It’s unlikely that customers in our launch markets of London and Paris will experience such con...