Volvo reaches milestone with 5000 electric trucks sold worldwide

Volvo Trucks has now delivered more than 5000 battery electric trucks to customers in 50 countries around the world. With eight electric truck models in production today, Volvo’s leading position in electric trucks is stronger than ever. 

Electric trucks have been offered by the company since 2019 and since then, customers in 50 countries around the world have switched to electric transport and driven close to 170 million kilometres in commercial operations. These trucks have reduced CO2emissions and traffic noise levels while also improving the working environment for drivers.

‘It is rewarding to see that transport companies continue to embrace the benefits with electric trucks in a wide range of transport segments,’ said Roger Alm, president, Volvo Trucks. ‘Volvo’s battery electric trucks are available here and now, providing our customers and transport buyers with a more sustainable alternative that makes business sense, and many of our customers are coming back to us to grow their electric fleets.’

The company’s current range of electric trucks is tailored to meet the needs of city and regional distribution as well as the construction and refuse segments. The company’s top five markets for electric trucks are Germany, the Netherlands, United States, Norway and Sweden.

The benefits of electric trucks go beyond the environmental gains – drivers are experiencing a significantly better working environment with much lower levels of noise and vibrations. Volvo has also built competence in optimising the use of installed energy, financing, charging and servicing electric trucks.

Volvo Trucks drives the decarbonising of transport to reach its net-zero emissions target by 2040 using a three path technology strategy. This approach is built on battery electric, fuel cell electric and combustion engines that run on renewable fuels like green hydrogen (produced by splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen using renewable electricity), biogas (Bio-LNG) or biodiesel and HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oil).

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