Give Tesla all the credit in the world for getting the EV revolution started, but the rest of the automotive universe isn’t waiting around for Tesla. News of the Tesla Cybertruck ignited a frenzy of interest in electric pickup trucks when it was announced.
That level of interest resonated in corporate boardrooms all across America as first Ford, then GM, and finally Dodge announced that, yes indeed, they would offer electric pickup trucks, too!
Tesla also announced some time ago that it would offer an electric semi — the tractor that hauls semi-trailers back and forth across the continent and everywhere in between. Then yesterday, Elon Musk announced the Semi is delayed until 2023 at the earliest.
But once again, Tesla lit the fuse on the electric semi transition and others have begun piling into the space created by Elon and his Musketeers. Volvo Trucks (which is not the same as Volvo Cars) has been hard at work developing electric semis and has just received an order for 100 of them from DFDS, northern Europe’s largest shipping and logistics company with annual revenues of €19 billion.
The deal is the largest commercial order to date for Volvo electric trucks and one of the largest ever for heavy duty electric trucks. The first Volvo FM Electric was delivered to DFDS in August. Delivery of the remaining trucks will begin in about a year from now and continue though 2023. The trucks will be used on both short- and long-haul routes in the DFDS logistics system in Europe - link - Steve Hanley - link - more like this - link
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