Volvo To Manufacture Fully Electric Heavy-Duty Truck in 2022: FT
Volvo To Manufacture Fully Electric Heavy-Duty Truck in 2022: FT
What Happened: In its 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.
沃爾沃電動卡車的續航里程為300公里，將於2021年開始預售，2022年開始生產。
Apart from electric trucks, Volvo’s portfolio also includes battery-powered construction equipment like hook lift trucks and concrete mixers.
除了電動卡車，沃爾沃的產品組合還包括電動建築設備，如吊鈎卡車和混凝土攪拌機。
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.
怎麼了：在ITS中10月份銷售更新據沃爾沃披露，全球汽車銷量增長7.1%。儘管2020年1-10月的銷售額下降了4.6%，但歐洲市場佔收入份額的43%，中國貢獻了25.6%的收入。
Volvo is targeting electric models to generate 50% of its European truck sales by 2030.
沃爾沃的目標是到2030年，電動車型佔其歐洲卡車銷量的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產品和車輛銷售主管傑西卡·桑德斯特羅姆(Jessica Sandstrom)表示，這是採用大型商用電動汽車的一大步--英國《金融時報》
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.
沃爾沃卡車總裁羅傑·阿爾姆(Roger Alm)表示，該公司希望電動卡車的總擁有成本儘可能與柴油卡車相當。
He added that Volvo is hoping for society to pay more for deliveries done with climate-friendly trucks.
他補充説，沃爾沃希望社會為用氣候友好型卡車完成的送貨支付更多費用。
Price Movement: Volvo ADR gained 1.32% to close at $20.70 on Wednesday.
價格走勢：沃爾沃ADR週三上漲1.32%，收於20.70美元。
相關鏈接：福特高管表示，福特不打算製造電動超級卡車
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