Da a few days ago, the house began delivering the first trucks produced by the Volvo Construction Equipment division, which manufactures construction equipment. This is a process that began in 2018, which today finally sees the light of the market: the future foresees only battery-powered vehicles for the shipbuilding sector, to the benefit of pollution, both in terms of CO2 emissions and as regards the acoustic aspect.
The first deliveries have ended in France: it is an ECR25 electric excavator, and a Volvo FE Electric truck, both currently used in the yard that is carrying out the Grand Paris Express project, a series of high-speed railway lines under construction in the Ile-de-France region.
Volvo strongly believes in electric construction equipment, judging by the words of Melker Jernberg, president of Volvo Construction Equipment: “The delivery of this truck and this excavator represents the beginning of a revolution in the shipbuilding and work equipment sector; these are not niche products, these machines will soon spread and replace endothermic combustion vehicles. "