LONDON: Electric truck startup Volta Trucks on Wednesday said its first truck will be built at a former MAN truck plant in Austria under a contract starting in late 2022 by Steyr Automotive, a newly formed company that took over the factory. have taken.
As part of a plan to cut costs, Volkswagen AG unit MAN recently converted its plant in Steyr, Austria to Steyr Automotive, operated by former Canadian auto supplier Magna International Inc executive Siegfried Wolff. The plant will continue to make vehicles for MAN until 2023, but seeks to operate as a contract manufacturer for other firms.
Stockholm-based Volta Trucks, which also operates in the UK, is expected to begin production of the 16-tonne electric truck Volta Zero at the end of 2022 and 5,000 vehicles for customers in 2023 before a diesel truck ban in Paris in 2023. is required. .
Rather than slog through how to build its own expensive plant and mass-produce its electric trucks, Volta will hire Steyr Automotive to build them.
“In addition to an excellent manufacturing facility, Steyr Automotive has trained engineers and experienced managers at all levels of its workforce,” Volta Trucks Chief Technology Officer Kjell Valoen told Reuters. start new product. You multiply the risks and complications manifold.”
Rather than go through “manufacturing hell” when Tesla Inc. ramped up production of its mass-market Model 3 sedans in 2017 and 2018, many electric startups have chosen to hand over operators that are already mass-marketing. Build vehicles.
REE Automotive and Fisker Inc. have both teamed up with Magna to make their EVs, while Fisker has a similar agreement with Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd. of Taiwan.
Volta Trucks currently plans four electric truck models of various sizes and says it expects to produce more than 27,000 trucks annually by 2025.
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