launch program for a full electric range

Launch Program for a Full Electric Range

Volvo is going through a process of preparing its truck dealers because it has a launch program for a full electric range. All areas of the business are involved to enable them to start selling these alt-power trucks in 2023. The company is working on the assumption that the regulations will happen to enable customers to use them. At the same time as trying to control expectation as much as it can, it needs to be ready for the green light when it comes.
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Volvo FM Electric 4x2 prime mover

Volvo FM Electric 4×2 Prime Mover 

Volvo Trucks have been loaning the UK’s leading pub company and brewer Greene King a Volvo FM Electric 4×2 prime mover and PowerTorque’s European Correspondent, Will Shiers made a trip to the east of England to see what they thought of it.
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preparing for an electric future

Preparing for an Electric Future

The move to alternative power is inevitable and PowerTorque sat down with Paul Ilmer, Vice President Emerging Technology Business development at Volvo, so he could explain how can start preparing for an electric future, without diesel engines.

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ideal brewery workhorse

Ideal Electric Brewery Workhorse

Having spent a day delivering Greene King beer, PowerTorque’s European Correspondent, Will Shiers reckons battery-powered trucks might be the ideal brewery workhorse.
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investigating electric power

Investigating Electric Power

“When we have discussions with customers who are investigating electric power, we can do range simulations, even prior to them even thinking about electric,” says Paul Ilmer, Vice President Emerging Technology Business development at Volvo. “To help a customer make a decision whether electric is for them now or later, they can do it virtually, which takes all the risk away.”
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what electric truck customers want

What Electric Truck Customers Want

The whole idea of fleets of electric trucks and the development of an electric truck ecosystem is dependant on well informed transport operators and truck makers who understand what electric truck customers want.
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industry leader in zero tailpipe emissions

Industry Leader in Zero Tailpipe Emissions

Volvo Trucks is one of the early truck manufacturers to embrace battery power, electrifying its entire truck range from 16.7 to 44 tonnes, and declaring itself the industry leader in zero tailpipe emissions commercial vehicles in the process, PowerTorque’s European Correspondent, Will Shiers, investigates. 
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