Commercial and Off-highway Vechicles Market
Electric Vehicles have been penetrating the passenger vehicle market significantly, but what is the story for Commercial and Off-Highway Vehicles (COHV)? Motivations and incentives are different in this sector where latest-and-greatest pales in comparison to ROI. Within PTR’s e-Mobility segment, Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles service has been designed to look deeper into six major segments of the commercial and off-highway vehicles market: Trucks, Buses, Lightweight Commercial Vehicles, Construction Vehicles, Agricultural Vehicles and Forklifts (Industrial Trucks).
$65 million committed by State of Colorado to electrify school bus fleet
The long awaited SB 193 air quality bill has recently been signed by the Governor of Colorado, Jared Polis. The bill, which tackles numerous climate correction incentives, also creates a $65 million grant program for electric school buses within the state. The United...
Volta Trucks confirms electric trucks to the US beginning in mid-2023
Volta Trucks has been identified as one of the biggest electric commercial vehicle startups present within Europe. It has marked up billions in back orders and has introduced three additional weight variants within its commercial vehicle segment, setting its footing...
Honda Motors to invest $40 billion into electrification
Honda recently stated its carbon neutrality goals, setting 2040 as the company's target for a completely gasoline-free sales portfolio. In order to reach this target year, Honda Motors has decided to invest a total of $39.91 billion over the next ten years for its...
USPS orders 50,000 new delivery vehicles, with over 10,000 electric
Following President Biden's Electrify America initiative which set in motion initiatives to transition the passenger and commercial fleets of the U.S to electric by the end of the decade, a number of companies pledged their own electrification goals. The President...
Clean Truck Strategy Colorado – ICE going Electric by 2050
Since the introduction of the Advanced Clean Truck act by California, the U.S. has extensively accelerated its transition towards the integration of electric vehicles within its fleets. Since joining office, the Biden Administration has continued to place emphasize on...
Shell & BYD partner up on charging infrastructure
Following the recent investment and expansion at BYD’s electric bus factory in Hungary supporting its principle of ‘Made in Europe for Europe’, an investment that is aimed at resulting into an increase in production capacity, with the annual output of a single shift...
Chile to ban combustion motors by 2045
Latin America remains one of the largest EV markets with immense potential to extensively increase global EV deployments. With countries such as Chile, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia actively taking part in driving the transportation industry towards carbon neutrality...
Ford Starts Shipping 2022 E-Transit Vans To US Customers
Ford is considered to be the go-to automotive brand for many U.S citizens - with a trusted range of commercial vehicles already present within the U.S transportation network, Ford is finally accelerating its electrification strategy for the commercial vehicle sector...
Volkswagen able to build 1 million EVs a year in China from 2023
The Chinese market has been dominated by Asian market players, owing to their extensive production capacities and reduced manufacturing costs. Volkswagen, however, has recently announced plans to build ~1 million electric vehicles a year in China, starting from 2023....
70,000 e-buses delivered by BYD worldwide, with a total of 5.5 billion km covered
After 10 years of operation, Chinese e-Mobility giant, BYD, has recently announced the delivery of it's 70,000th e-Bus. With this delivery, BYD has successfully managed to cover a total of 5.5 billion km worldwide. The company's e-Bus presence within Europe now stands...
General Motors to open two battery plants in U.S.
General Motors will open two battery plants in the U.S. to support increasing electric and autonomous vehicle production. The announcements came as GM's rival Ford said its entire Lincoln luxury brand lineup would be electric or gas-electric hybrid by 2030, including...
School district transportation company Zūm wants to use its electric school buses to send power back to grid
Zūm is the industry leader in child transportation for school districts based in California, U.S. The startup provides child transportation for school districts and families, and is aiming to use its fleet of electric school buses to deliver power back to the...
LeasePlan orders 3,000 Arrival electric vans
LeasePlan, one of the world's largest Vehicle leasing company, has recently stated initiatives for commissioning Arrival to build 3000 electric vans. This procurment of battery electric vans is to be embedded in a partnership under which LeasePlan will be declared the...
BYD North America govt. funding for bus fleet electrification stopped
BYD North America is one of the two major players in the transportation industry present within the United States, the other being California-based Proterra Inc. With President Biden's call for fleet electrification throughout the country in motion, BYD North America...
VB beer deliveries go green with Volvo electric truck
Iconic Australian beer brand Victoria Bitter is now procuring zero-emissions Volvo FL electric trucks. Newly-introduced Victoria Bitter’s green trucking company Linfox will use the Volvo electric truck to transport more than 100,000 cans of the liquid amber brew from...
Sweden & Spain placing large orders for Electric Buses, ADL BYD partnership producing its 500th Electric Bus and confirming the next 500
Spain ordering 30 E-buses signifies the growing trend and dedication towards the Madrid 360 initiative, taking into account that the order is the largest in Spain's history. With 2.25% of bus fleets comprising of Electric buses, Spain plans on eliminating diesel...
SEA Electric has announced the launch of volume production of its first locally-assembled electric trucks
SEA Electric is a Melbourne-based electric truck company that has announced the launch of SEA 300 and SEA 500. Previously, the eight-year old company has constructed electric trucks for custom applications for customers both in Australia and overseas by retrofitting...
City of London Corporation to run fully electric refuse truck fleet
The City of London Corporation claims that it will become the first UK local authority to run a fully electric fleet of refuse trucks. Five new electric refuse trucks arrived at the City of London Corporation this week. These zero-emission electric recycling and waste...
FedEx is going all-electric
FedEx is converting its entire parcel pickup and delivery fleet fully electric by 2040. The company has planned to invest $2 billion into vehicle electrification. FedEx is planning to replace existing vehicles into fully electric vehicles over the next 19 years....
Solaris Urbino electric buses currently being tested by carriers in various Norwegian towns and cities
Solariss newest zero-emission electric bus is currently being tested by carriers in various Norwegian towns and cities. The bus, unveiled in October last year, have started being tested and these tests are expected to be completed by the end of March. These electric...
Qatar Free Zones will see production of 1,500 electric buses within seven years from the end of 2022
Last year, Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) signed a multilateral framework agreement with Yutong, one of the world's largest bus and coach suppliers and Mowasalat to manufacture electric buses in the Free Zones. Free zones are areas within Qatar which are...
Canadas Lion Electric wins order for electric school buses
Lion Electric has received an order from Autobus Séguin, a transportation operator headquartered in Quebec. They have ordered 60 electric school buses to arrive in the next five years. According to Autobus Séguin Ultimately, our ambition is to electrify our entire...
GM to invest $800 million to convert existing facility into Canadas first large-scale commercial EV plant
General Motors plans to bring production of its recently announced BrightDrop electric light commercial vehicle, the EV600. The nearly $800 million (C$1 billion) investment will support GMs timing to deliver BrightDrop EV600 in late 2021. The investment will enable...
Scania commits to battery electric vehicles and rules out hyrogen fuel cell for long distance transport
Fully electric trucks and plug-in hybrid trucks have already been launched by Scania. However, Scania plans to launch long-distance electric trucks that will be able to carry a total weight of 40 tonnes for 4.5 hours. The truck has fast charging option which can be...
Volvo’s first electric truck reaches Australian shores
The first Volvo FL Electric truck reaches Australian shores from Swedens Volvo Trucks. These trucks have been developed by Volvo for distribution, refuse handling, and other urban transport applications. The two-axle FL Electric truck boasts a gross vehicle weight...
Lion Electric to supply electric trucks to Amazon
According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Quebec-Based Lion Electric has agreed to supply Amazon with up to 2,500 trucks by 2030. The company will be providing all-electric Lion 6 and Lion 8 electric trucks to Amazon. Lion Electric is...
Electric buses to provide public transport in Lahore
Chief Minister Punjab issued instructions for expediting electric bus operations in Lahore. These electric buses would run on six routes in the city, covering 106km. The Lahore Transport Company will be transformed into Punjab Transport Company with transport...
Electric buses manufactured in Poland take over the European electric bus market
Poland is one of the largest electric bus manufacturing countries in Europe. The manufacturing of electric buses is continuously growing as companies such as Germany's MAN Truck and Bus recently launched production in Poland. "MAN's new investment strongly enhances...
DHL adds BYD electric trucks to its fleet
DHL is adding four BYD Class 8 electric trucks into its fleet. DHL will be using these trucks in the Los Angeles metro area. Chinese automaker BYD has its truck and bus factory in California. CEO of DHL Express said that implemention of these electric trucks will...
Lion Electric and Nuvve Corporation partner to provide Vehicle-to-Grid enabled electric school buses and trucks
Nuvve Corporation is a San Diego-based green energy technology company and the global leader in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Lion Electric recently announced their plans on launching vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. In collaboration with Nuvve Corporation, Lion...