Volta Trucks announces second Certified Service Partner for France
Certified Service Partners to provide comprehensive geographic Service and Maintenance coverage.
AD Poids Lourds is proud to be associated with the ambitious objectives of Volta Trucks in France, both in terms of volumes and the innovative services offered by the Taas range.
Volta Trucks, the leading and disruptive all-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has announced the appointment of AD Poids Lourds as a Certified Service Partner for the French market.
With 200 workshops in France, AD Poids Lourds, part of the Auto Distribution PHE Group, is the leading independent network for the distribution of parts and services for multi-make commercial vehicles in France. Celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2023, AD Poids Lourds has made customer satisfaction, quality of work and environmental impact the main pillars of its organisation. As a result, AD Poids Lourds is the first HGV network to be awarded Qualicert certification by SGS ICS for the quality of its customer commitment. Through this partnership with Volta Trucks, the brand’s innovative design and its cutting-edge technology, AD Poids Lourds hopes to attract new technicians to the industry, enticed by innovative technology solutions.
AD Poids Lourds will complement the Volta Trucks Hub locations and will play a major role in the Volta Trucks’ Truck as a Service (TaaS) offering. Designed as a frictionless way to migrate fleets of all sizes to electric, maximising their uptime and operational efficiency, the TaaS proposition revolutionises the ownership, servicing, financing, and management of commercial vehicle fleets.
Guillaume Faures, Managing Director of the PHE Group’s HGV activities commented:
“Supporting our customers in the energy transition and attracting the best talent to our workshops are two major challenges for the AD HGV network. This partnership with Volta Trucks is an excellent opportunity to respond to both at the same time.”
Casper Norden, Chief Fleet Solutions Officer at Volta Trucks said;
“The expansion of our Certified Service Partnerships in France, with the addition of AD Poids Lourds, provides further geographic coverage across the region. The Certified Service Partners, along with our Truck as a Service Hub which is located on the outskirts of Paris, provide our customers with increased peace of mind and greater ease of access for service and maintenance requirements, wherever they may be located across France.”
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Notes to Editor
The Volta Zero is the world’s first purpose-built all-electric 16-tonne vehicle designed for urban logistics, reducing the environmental impact of freight deliveries in city centres. The Volta Zero is designed from the ground up with an operating pure-electric range of 150 – 200 kms (95 – 125 miles).
Safety is also at the heart of Volta Trucks, with the ambition to produce the safest trucks for our cities. The Volta Zero was designed for electric from the outset, which facilitates a step-change in vehicle, driver and pedestrian safety. Thanks to the removal of the internal combustion engine, the operator of a Volta Zero sits in a central driving position, with a much lower seat height than a conventional truck. This combination, plus a glass house-style cab design, gives the driver a wide 220-degrees of visibility, minimising dangerous blind spots.
Volta Trucks is also innovating with its Truck as a Service proposition that has revolutionised the financing and servicing of commercial vehicle fleets. Truck as a Service offers fleet managers a frictionless and hassle-free way to electrify their fleet by offering an all-inclusive service for a single, affordable, monthly fee. It provides access to an all-electric Volta Zero, with its charging infrastructure needs provided by world-leader Siemens, insurance through Europe’s premier insurtech broker, Qover, and servicing, maintenance, and training requirements, maximising the uptime and operational efficiency of the vehicle.
About Volta Trucks
Volta Trucks was founded in 2019 in Sweden by co-founders Carl-Magnus Norden and Kjell Waloen. The company, focused primarily on operations across all major cities in Europe and the UK, is accelerating the transition to all-electric trucks, reducing the effects of climate change and helping make our cities safer, healthier and more sustainable for everyone. Volta Trucks has partnered with a number of global leaders in the supply chain for the development and production of the Volta Zero, at pace and scale. In total, Volta Trucks has raised over €360 million funding to date.
The company’s contract manufacturing facility is in Steyr, Austria, where the production of customer-specification vehicles began in April 2023. The company has also established a network of ‘Volta Trucks Hub’ service and maintenance facilities in its launch markets, with the first four already announced in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, to the south of Paris, in Tottenham, London, Duisburg, to the west of the Rhine-Ruhr region in Germany, and in Madrid, Spain.
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