Volta Trucks is moving closer to starting customer deliveries of its all-electric Zero semi-truck having just completed its first customer driving evaluation and feedback sessions. The event took place at UTAC Autodrome de Linas-Montlhery in Paris and featured a handful of Volta’s Zero Design Verification prototypes. A number of customers provided Volta with their feedback on the truck and Volta says it will use this to develop next-generation Production Verification prototypes. These new prototypes will start to be built at the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria over the summer.
Once built, the Production Verification
prototypes will be loaned to customers for extended periods later this year.
Volta will then start to produce the first customer-specification vehicles in
early 2023.
Volta will host a number of other customer
evaluation events and prototype test drives for members of the media through
the second half of 2022. The Volta Zero can be ordered with either a 150 kWh or
225 kWh battery pack and has been designed to replace several smaller delivery
vans.
