Electric Volta Zero truck touring UK September

Electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider Volta Trucks is taking its full-electric Volta Zero around the United Kingdom throughout September in a series of high-profile customer and industry events.

The UK roadshow follows a successful European tour of Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Milan, Munich, and Frankfurt where more than 700 individual customer demonstrations of the Volta Zero were held prior to UK road-testing.

The UK tour starts with the EV Summit at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University on September 1-2 with Volta Trucks founder and executive chairman Carl-Magnus Norden in an EV design panel debate.

The EV Summit brings together business leaders and key players working on electric vehicles, energy, information technology and charging infrastructure, to explore how the world advances to full, battery electric, e-mobility and more.

On September 3-5 the Volta Zero will be presented at Fully Charged Outside, a festival of electric vehicles and clean energy. It will be displayed within the Commercial Vehicle Zone, and this will be the first time the public will be able to see and interact with the Volta Zero, rather than the business-focused audiences to date.

Next stop on the UK roadshow is the Lunch! Contemporary Food To-Go Show on September 23-24 at ExCeL, London, a key event for the café, coffee shop and food-to-go sector, with the refrigerated Volta Zero variant well suited for the Food and Beverage segment.

The Volta Zero will be presented with Nobl Thirst, formerly Drinks Cubed – Volta Trucks’ first customer.

Concluding the UK roadshow will be a Volta Trucks display at Freight in the City at London’s Alexandra Palace on September 28, amongst many other commercial vehicle brands, marking two years since Norden and co-founder Kjell Waloen gave a presentation on the future of Volta Trucks and its first vehicle the Volta Zero.

“I’m delighted that we can bring the Volta Zero to UK customers at such an important time for the country’s transition to a zero-emission economy, with the United Nations COP26 Climate Change Conference in Glasgow just a few months away,” Volta Trucks’ UK business development manager William Carlsson says.

“London is one of our initial launch markets and important for Volta Trucks so bringing the Volta Zero to UK customers to better understand their needs will give us vital learnings as we plan for the first vehicles to be on the UK’s roads next year.”

The prototype Volta Zero was launched in September 2020, with the first vehicles expected to be operating with customers in late 2021 and series production starting December 2022.