Truck as a Service
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Enabling electrification
Trucks as a Service Includes:
Electrification Services
Truck as a Service helps customers accelerate their route to zero-tailpipe emissions with an electrification programme defined around their individual fleet operations.
The journey starts with a free-of-charge Fleet Electrification Plan – a comprehensive assessment of the customer’s operations and depot facilities to fully understand the electrification infrastructure needs, and a timeline to implement it. We also use the customer’s own telematics data to understand the operations of the existing fleet through Route Electrification Optimisation (REO) analysis and a use case study to realistically confirm the vehicles that can be transitioned from diesel to electric now, and in the future.
This creates a shared vision of the journey ahead to zero tail pipe emissions, anticipated CO2 savings, a view on total cost of ownership and subsidy eligibility, which is delivered through our subsidy advisory team. They ensure all government and local authority financial support is fully recognised and leveraged for each customer, from the purchase of each Volta Zero to charging infrastructure, further maximising the cost-effectiveness of transitioning to electric.
Once this electrification plan is agreed, our customer success team will work hand-in-hand with the fleet manager, to guide the transition. They coordinate all the Truck as a Service elements and key milestones to deliver an optimal electric fleet solution.
This creates a shared vision of the journey ahead to zero tail pipe emissions, anticipated CO2 savings, a view on total cost of ownership and subsidy eligibility, which is delivered through our subsidy advisory team. They ensure all government and local authority financial support is fully recognised and leveraged for each customer, from the purchase of each Volta Zero to charging infrastructure, further maximising the cost-effectiveness of transitioning to electric.
Once this electrification plan is agreed, our customer success team will work hand-in-hand with the fleet manager, to guide the transition. They coordinate all the Truck as a Service elements and key milestones to deliver an optimal electric fleet solution.
Charging infrastructure
Through Truck as a Service, charging infrastructure is tailored to the individual needs of the customer.
We design and deliver a new and bespoke solution or adapt a customer’s existing infrastructure. For existing installations, we’ll assess and identify how these chargers can best work with a Volta Zero fleet through TaaS.
Importantly, our customer success team will guarantee that each charging solution, whether new or existing, is future proofed. This ensures new software and hardware updates can be easily accommodated within the existing infrastructure, while maintaining the ability to scale each solution alongside the future electrification needs of each customer.
Maintenance and Servicing
Our comprehensive approach to maintenance and servicing helps keep a customer’s fleet on the road when it matters most.
With Truck as a Service, each truck benefits from routine servicing, maintenance, inspections and extended vehicle cover over the holding period of the truck. This includes a guarantee on battery performance, offering customers assurance for the duration of their TaaS agreement.
In the event of an unplanned stop, customers and drivers have access to 24/7 roadside assistance. This includes a 2-hour commitment for roadside support and a 24-hour commitment to getting a truck moving again, either through repair or an optional replacement vehicle.
Finance
Our Truck as a Service financing solution offers customers more stability with less risk.
A 3-month deposit secures each Volta Zero with no further upfront costs, and Volta Trucks absorbs all residual value risk at the end of each vehicle TaaS agreement.
Each customer’s finance solution is tailored to deliver Total Cost of Ownership parity when compared with a like-for-like diesel alternative, across an eight-year lease. This is achieved through combining best-in-market funding specialists, legislative benefits and incentives, reduced ‘fuel’ costs, as well as reduced service and maintenance, thanks to the longevity and reliability of the Volta Zero’s electric powertrain.
Insurance
Specifically designed for commercial fleet electrification, our range of insurance products protect each Volta Zero, in addition to operators and businesses from the unexpected.
From single-vehicle to large fleets, third-party and comprehensive packages are available to meet each businesses unique needs. An online portal innovatively simplifies the insurance process too, seamlessly connecting quotation, subscription and claims through our partnership with Qover and Helvetia.
And should a repair be required, Volta Trucks’ high-quality experts, part of our network of centre’s specifically designed to maintain, service and repair Volta Zeros, will be available to reliably perform all needed work.
Our online insurance portal will be launching soon to support first deliveries of the Volta Zero later this year. Until this is live, click the link below for further details on our Qover and Helvetia partnership.
Training
With our dedicated training programmes designed for drivers, fleet operators and technicians, customers can transition to electrification with confidence.
Across the three dedicated programmes, tailored content includes everything required to embrace electrification, from operating and maintaining a Volta Zero to managing a fleet of electric trucks.
Telematics
Truck as a Service telematics seamlessly integrates with the full TaaS solution, providing customers with a complete view
of their Volta Zero’s, charging infrastructure, fleet operations and more.
Compatible with existing fleet management platforms, our telematic solution offers a uniquely comprehensive set of insights across all Truck as a Service elements which can be used to optimise efficiency, vehicle uptime and TCO.
Our integrated approach also means each Volta Zero benefits from remote diagnostics and over-the-air software updates. This ensures the vehicle is kept up to date with the latest software and feature releases for the duration of the TaaS agreement.
“It was fantastic to get our hands on a Volta Zero and put it through its paces, with our own drivers alongside Volta Truck’s engineers. We had the truck for five days and it is very impressive.”
For more information on Truck as a Service and how this solution can help meet your commercial fleet electrification needs
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Our electrification experts work seamlessly alongside customers at every step of the process.
This integrated end-to-end solution provides 360-degree electrification support to ensure an optimal fleet setup is designed, developed and delivered. Tailored to each customers business case, and to provide full peace of mind, this support continues once the vehicles are in operation for the duration of a Truck as a Service agreement.
Through understanding the needs of our customers, we have developed 7 core elements of Truck as a Service. Each element is designed to simplify and accelerate the transition to electric for our customers.