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Volvo starts serial production of electric trucks in Belgium

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Volvo Trucks ramps up electric truck volumes and starts serial production of heavy battery electric trucks at the Ghent factory in Belgium. This means that electric Volvo trucks are now built in four factories – three in Europe and one in the US. “I´m I´m thrilled!

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Coca-Cola will now make local deliveries in Belgium with 30 electric Renault Trucks vehicles

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Coca-Cola Europacific Partners (CCEP) will start using 30 electric trucks to make “last mile” deliveries to local customers in Belgium. The first five vehicles will go out today in the Antwerp area.

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Volvo Cars to triple electric car production capacity in Ghent after strong year of electrified car sales

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Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.

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IVECO BUS signs a framework agreement for the sale of up to 500 electric buses in Belgium

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The vehicles will be deployed in several cities in Flanders, with deliveries beginning in 2024 […] The post IVECO BUS signs a framework agreement for the sale of up to 500 electric buses in Belgium appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Volvo Cars to build EX30 small SUV at Ghent plant

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Responding to strong demand for the car, Volvo Cars has decided that it will start building the new fully electric Volvo EX30 in its Ghent plant in Belgium from 2025, expanding production capacity for its celebrated small SUV.

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Volvo Cars January global sales up 2%; Recharge models up 31%, for 40.7% of all cars sold

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Sales of Volvo Cars´ Recharge models of fully electric and plug-in hybrid cars increased by 31% in January year-on-year, accounting for 40.7% of all Volvo cars sold globally during the month. The share of fully electric cars stood at 16.2%. European sales for January reached 21,436 cars, up 14.7%

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DFDS orders 100 electric trucks from Volvo

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With this latest order, DFDS has almost doubled its Volvo electric truck fleet to 225 trucks in total – the largest company fleet of heavy electric trucks in Europe.

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