Birmingham, UK: Petit Forestier is to offer refrigerated versions of the Volta Zero in the UK, Ireland, France, Spain, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Poland.
Petit Forestier will become Volta’s rental and leasing partner for the refrigerated version of the all-electric 16-tonne and 18-tonne Volta Zero.
Essa Al-Saleh, chief executive, Volta Trucks, said; “Our partnership and rental agreement with Petit Forestier further demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with a simple, easy-to-manage and de-risked transition to an all-electric transport solution, helping to make our city centres safer and more sustainable for everyone.”
Léonard Forestier, president, Petit Forestier Group, said: “We are working hand in hand with our partners, to provide to our customers, innovative solutions that meet environmental challenges. We are proud to partner up with Volta Trucks to propose the refrigerated Volta Zero, the result of a partnership built on innovation and sustainable development.”
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.
The company’s partner in contract manufacturing is in Steyr, Austria, where production of customer specification vehicles started 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.
