OSLO (Reuters) -Volvo Vehicles stated on Monday it has signed a letter of intent to promote 1,000 electrical vans to Swiss constructing options supplier Holcim for supply within the subsequent seven years.
“The deal is the most important industrial order thus far for Volvo electrical vans,” Volvo stated in a press release.
The primary 130 vans can be delivered through the fourth quarter of 2023 and all through 2024 to markets together with France, Germany, Switzerland and Britain, amongst others.
By changing 1,000 diesel vans with electrical variations utilizing inexperienced electrical energy might save as much as 50,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions yearly, Volvo stated.
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik, Louise Rasmussen enhancing by Anna Ringstrom)