Volta Trucks and Cake e-motorcycles doing last mile delivery hub

Volta Trucks and Cake electric motorcycles aim to further decarbonise and decongest city centre streets.

The Swedish innovators are combining to provide electric mobile micro hubs for last mile delivery with the first customer trial with fashion and design house H&M Group planned in Paris early next year.

The fully integrated, zero tailpipe emission delivery service from warehouse to end customer uses an efficient combination of electric trucks and electric two wheelers.

The Volta Zero 16-tonne electric truck with 150-200km range will act as a mobile micro hub, or mini warehouse, while Cake’s electric motorcycles will be loaded into the Volta Zero from the distribution centre at the start of the working day and deployed into the city centre. From there, the Cake e-motorcycles will deliver the last mile of parcels to customers in the fastest and most sustainable way, without impacting traffic or struggling with parking.

The Volta Zero is free to redeploy to other locations throughout the day or to provide quick-replacement batteries for the Cake motorcycles if necessary.

“We’ve designed the full-electric Volta Zero to be the cleanest, safest and most efficient urban delivery vehicle,” says Volta Trucks chief executive Essa Al-Saleh.  

“Most of our customers are using trucks to deliver from out-of-town warehouses to inner city stores. “The partnership between Volta Trucks and Cake will showcase how a combination of zero tailpipe emission transport solutions can bring benefit to brands and customers, such as the H&M Group, and city centre environments.”

Cake founder and chief executive Stefan Ytterborn says  that as the majority of today’s last-mile delivery chains will soon be banned in many of the world’s largest cities, world-leading e-commerce consumer brands need to engage in future-proof concepts now.

“Solutions need to be developed to offer lower emissions and less congestion, while benefiting from far more efficient deliveries all the way to the end customer,” he says.

“This innovative mobility ecosystem that the three brands are trialling is setting a clear direction for both healthier cities and business advantages.”

Volta Trucks now has around 6500 vehicles ordered, valued at about 1.4 billion euros.