Musk To Sell Tesla Semi Electric Truck In Europe And Re-Write All Of Human Knowledge
Despite the ongoing brand reputation meltdown at Tesla, CEO Elon Musk is moving forward with plans to market the new Tesla Semi Class 8 electric truck in Europe.
Despite the ongoing brand reputation meltdown at Tesla, CEO Elon Musk is moving forward with plans to market the new Tesla Semi Class 8 electric truck in Europe.
Volta Trucks is trying to take a different approach to cargo vehicles in cities. Starting in 2017, with grand plans to revolutionize safety and environmental technology for trucks, the company has had a long journey to delivery. The Swedish EV startup’s vehicle, the Volta Zero, is an all-electric commercial cargo … [continued]
Sibros CEO and co-founder Hemant Sikaria recently took the time to chat with me about what inspired him to start his company and solve a critical problem for a wide variety of industries. This problem, he told me, had already been solved at Tesla. Sikaria spent five years with Tesla … [continued]
Volta Trucks plans to sell 27,000 electric delivery trucks a year, starting with the Volta Zero 16-ton model in 2025.
Volta Trucks has laid out its Road-to-Zero Emissions strategy and is launching four full-electric commercial vehicles. The trucks will be between 7.5t and 19t and manufactured at multiple facilities. The target is set to 27,000 vehicle sales annually across expanded markets. The company plans to launch these new trucks by … [continued]
I just saw news that Volta Trucks was rolling its Volta Zero through Spain for show & tell, and it seemed like I’d been seeing a number of announcements from the startup lately, so I dug through its recent press releases. There was more there than I realized, and the … [continued]
Volta Trucks, the new British commercial electric truck startup, has decided to get its vehicle batteries from Proterra, which just opened a next-gen battery production factory in California in December. The company claims that the Volta Zero will be “the world’s first purpose-built, full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle designed specifically for … [continued]
We reported earlier this week that the UK is planning to boot sales of new fossil fuel cars by 2030, which is an accelerated timeline from the original 2017 plan to do so by 2040 and a subsequent February 2020 plan to do so by 2035.
Volta Trucks argues that there’s something lacking, though.
The first Volta Trucks customer is Drinks Cubed. Volta Trucks recently unveiled the Volta Zero, a fully battery electric delivery vehicle or bus for urban areas. Out of the many good electric delivery vehicles out there, this one looks like one of the absolute coolest. The design is slick, sleek, and futuristic.
More than probably any other company in this sector, Volta Trucks has adopted the spirit and some of the design of the Tesla Semi. It has the driver seated in the middle of the cabin in its newly revealed Volta Zero. It has two fairly large vertical touchscreens flanking the steering wheel, and one more in a horizontal position behind the steering wheel.