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.
沃爾沃電動卡車的範圍涵蓋 300 公里，將於 2021 年開放預售，並於 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.
除了電動卡車外，Volvo 的產品組合還包括電池供電的建築設備，例如掛鉤式鏟車和混凝土攪拌機。
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.
發生了什麼: 在其10 月銷售更新沃爾沃披露了全球汽車銷售增長 7.1％。儘管 2020 年 1 月至 10 月的銷售額下降了 4.6％，但歐洲市場的收入份額為 43％，中國貢獻了收入的 25.6％。
Volvo is targeting electric models to generate 50% of its European truck sales by 2030.
沃爾沃的目標是電動車型，在 2030 年之前將其歐洲卡車銷售額的 50％ 產生。
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 產品和汽車銷售負責人傑西卡·桑斯特龍（Jessica Sandstrom）表示，這是採用大型商用電動汽車 —《金融時報》的一大步。
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與柴油卡車盡可能相當。
He added that Volvo is hoping for society to pay more for deliveries done with climate-friendly trucks.
他補充說，Volvo 希望社會為使用氣候友好型卡車完成的交付付出更多費用。
Price Movement: Volvo ADR gained 1.32% to close at $20.70 on Wednesday.
價格變動: 沃爾沃 ADR 上漲 1.32%，收盤價為 20.70 美元星期三。
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