UK firm Tevva unveils mass production electric truck
Electric truck pioneer Tevva has unveiled a 7.5-tonne electric truck intended for mass production in the UK.
Engineered by a team led by Ken Scott, formerly engineering director at Bentley and Alexander Dennis, and styled by Dale Grewer, former chief designer at Jaguar Land Rover, the Tevva Truck will be manufactured in a brand-new 11,000 m2 facility in the London Thames Freeport area.
With production due to start in in July 2022 the organisation expects to be manufacturing 3,000 trucks a year by 2023, an effort that it said will create an additional 1,000 skilled mechanical, software, engineering, and manufacturing jobs over the next 24 months.
Engineered to enable fleet operators to make a smooth transition to electrification the truck’s pure battery electric range of 160 miles (250 km) is enhanced by the use of a hydrogen fuel cell range extender, that boosts the vehicle’s range to 310 miles (500km).
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