A Canadian home improvement chain has taken delivery of two Volvo VNR Electric trucks, and is putting them to work on last-mile delivery routes in the Greater Toronto Area.
This month, Canadian home improvement retailer Home Hardware began operating two electric Volvo trucks from its St. Louis truck depot. Jacobs, Ontario. The two trucks will carry out last-mile deliveries across the region, and mark the company's first step towards converting its entire fleet to zero-emissions vehicles.
Volvo VNR trucks have a range of 442 km (about 275 miles). Their delivery routes will take them from Home-brand stores within a 100-150 km (about 90 miles) radius of the St. Louis distribution center. Jacobs.
“We are proud to introduce our new battery-electric trucks to our private fleet,” said Kevin Macnab, president and CEO, Home Hardware Stores Ltd. “Regarded by the Private Motor Truck Council as the Safest Large Fleet, and as Trucking HR Canada as a Top Vehicle Hire and Distribution Division, Home Hardware Stores, Ltd. is committed to proactively changing our supply chain to better support our retailers to able to serve their communities.
Home Hardware debuted their Volvo VNR Electric trucks at the company's 60th anniversary and franchise's annual event, Home Hardware Homecoming, held last week in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Electrek's Take
Home Hardware is the latest in a growing list of companies – and they're already adding to the tens of millions of all-electric, zero-emissions miles driven by Volvo customers. When Volvo launches the next generation of VNL and FH electric vehicles next year, it will be the company's third generation of Class 8 EVs, and will be backed by more than 100,000,000 miles of real-world data collected from thousands of trucks. across many companies.
Is that an insurmountable start for companies like Tesla to make? It's hard to know (and my mind is broken, anyway), but I invite you to check out this episode Fast Charging which was recorded a few weeks ago (below) talking about the Volvo Truck lead, then share yours Take the state of the electric semi truck market in the comments.
Fast Charging
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