Volvo To Manufacture Fully Electric Heavy-Duty Truck in 2022: FT
Volvo To Manufacture Fully Electric Heavy-Duty Truck in 2022: FT
Swedish heavy vehicle manufacturer Volvo Group (OTC: VLVLY) could be one of the early birds to launch heavy-duty trucks entirely powered by batteries, Financial Times reports.
With a range of 300kms, Volvo electric trucks will be open for pre-sales in 2021 and production kicking off in 2022.
沃尔沃电动卡车的续航里程为300公里，将于2021年开始预售，2022年开始生产。
Apart from electric trucks, Volvo’s portfolio also includes battery-powered construction equipment like hook lift trucks and concrete mixers.
除了电动卡车，沃尔沃的产品组合还包括电动建筑设备，如吊钩卡车和混凝土搅拌机。
What Happened: In its October sales update, Volvo disclosed a 7.1% growth in car sales globally. Despite a 4.6% drop in sales for January-October 2020, the European markets accounted for 43% revenue share, and China contributed to 25.6% of revenues.
怎么了：在其历史上10月份销售更新据沃尔沃披露，全球汽车销量增长7.1%。尽管2020年1月至10月的销售额下降了4.6%，但欧洲市场占营收份额的43%，中国贡献了25.6%的营收。
Volvo is targeting electric models to generate 50% of its European truck sales by 2030.
沃尔沃的目标是，到2030年，电动车型占其欧洲卡车销量的50%。
VolvoTrucks Head of Product and Vehicle Sales, Jessica Sandstrom, said that it was a big step in adopting large commercial electric vehicles — Financial Times.
VolvoTrucks产品和车辆销售主管杰西卡·桑德斯特罗姆表示，这是采用大型商用电动汽车的一大步--英国《金融时报》
Why Does It Matter: Some of Volvo’s closes market peers in this business segment include the German company Daimler AG (OTC: DMLRY), the Chinese carmaker BYD Co Ltd (OTC: BYDDF), the Henrik Fisker founded Fisker Inc (NYSE: FSR), Ohio based Lordstown Motors Corporation (NASDAQ: RIDE) and the Trevor Milton owned Nikola Corporation (NASDAQ: NKLA).
Volvo Trucks President Roger Alm said that the company wanted the total cost of ownership of an electric truck to be as comparable as possible to diesel trucks.
沃尔沃卡车总裁罗杰·阿尔姆表示，该公司希望电动卡车的总拥有成本尽可能与柴油卡车相当。
He added that Volvo is hoping for society to pay more for deliveries done with climate-friendly trucks.
他补充说，沃尔沃希望社会为用环保卡车完成的送货支付更多费用。
Price Movement: Volvo ADR gained 1.32% to close at $20.70 on Wednesday.
价格走势：沃尔沃ADR周三上涨1.32%，收于20.70美元。
相关链接：福特高管表示，福特不打算制造电动超级卡车
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