LONDON : Electric truck startup Volta Trucks said on Wednesday its first trucks will be made under contract starting late 2022 at a former MAN truck plant in Austria by Steyr Automotive, a newly formed company that has taken over the factory.
Stockholm-based Volta Trucks, which also operates in the UK, needs to start producing the Volta Zero, a 16-tonne electric truck, in late 2022 and produce 5,000 vehicles for customers in 2023 ahead of a diesel truck ban in Paris effective in 2024. "Apart from an excellent manufacturing facility, Steyr Automotive has trained engineers and experienced managers at all levels of their workforce," Volta Trucks Chief Technology Officer Kjell Waloen told Reuters."If you start up a brand new product in a brand new plant without experience, you multiply the risks and complications many, many times."