Volvo Trucks Previews Next-Generation VNL Electric Battery-Electric Truck for North America
Volvo Trucks North America is previewing the next-generation Volvo VNL Electric, a battery-electric truck designed for regional haul, drayage and city distribution.
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What Happened
The Volvo VNL Electric is the fourth model planned for Volvo's new platform, joining the all-new VNL, VNR, and a future vocational model. The platform is designed to support all future technologies, including battery-electric, fuel cell, and internal combustion engines. Volvo has over seven years of experience delivering battery-electric trucks globally.
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These trucks have collectively logged over 30 million zero-tailpipe emission miles.
“Volvo Trucks has been delivering battery-electric trucks to customers for several years, giving us valuable real-world insight into how these vehicles perform across different applications. The Volvo VNL Electric will build on that experience, designed specifically for the segments where electrification is gaining the most momentum, and supported by an ecosystem that helps customers operate with c”
The VNL Electric will be equipped with Proterra's Onyx Battery Platform, manufactured in the United States in South Carolina. Volvo Trucks has certified 84 dealer locations across 33 states and four Canadian provinces to support its electric trucks.
Why this matters
The VNL Electric represents Volvo's next step in electrification, designed for segments where zero-emission transport is gaining momentum, and built on a platform that will also support fuel cell and internal combustion engine technologies.
Terms in This Story
- battery-electric truck
- A truck powered solely by electricity stored in batteries, producing no tailpipe emissions.
- regional haul
- Transportation of goods over moderate distances, typically within a few hundred miles.
- drayage
- Short-distance transport of goods, often between ports, rail yards, and warehouses.
- zero-tailpipe emission
- Vehicles that emit no pollutants from the exhaust, such as battery-electric or hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.
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