According to some reliable international media reports, Volvo Trucks might postpone the start of construction of its planned battery manufacturing plant, to be located in the Swedish city of Mariestad. Volvo originally aimed at start building their battery production plant in the motherland by 2025. Now, the construction works may start one or two years later.

Volvo Trucks’ battery production extended plans

Volvo is currently working at the first group’s battery production site, located in Ghent, Belgium. “We don’t know if this will bring any change to the production start/serial production, but the aim is to time the ramp-up of production with the demand of battery-electric applications and not build up a much larger operation than the market”, said an internal source quoted by Reuters.

At IAA, we had a valuable chat with Volvo Trucks top management, also about the future of battery production within Volvo Trucks. We’ll report about it on Sustainable Truck&Van very soon.

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