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Volvo Group begin customer deliveries of all-electric products

2021-01-19

Launching a new generation of zero exhaust emissions products, leading French contractor Eiffage has taken delivery of an all-electric Volvo FE Electric truck and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact Excavator – becoming the first recipient of the products in France.

The 17th December saw the first delivery of a Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) machine and the first all-electric Volvo FE truck in France, thereby accelerate the long-term transformation to more sustainable transport and infrastructure solutions.

The recipient of the new products – an electric Volvo FE truck, with electrically powered crane, and a Volvo ECR25 Electric compact excavator – was leading French contractor and long-term Volvo customer Eiffage. The machines support Eiffage`s low carbon strategy and are to work on the ambitious Grand Paris Express transport project in the French capital. This is a rapid transit initiative being built in the French capital that will add 200 kilometres (120 mi) of new track and 68 new stations, ultimately serving two million passengers a day.

The handover of Volvo Trucks and Volvo Construction Equipment`s first all-electric products was marked with a small ceremony in Paris. It was attended by Benoit de Ruffray, Eiffage Group CEO, and representative of Volvo Truck and Volvo CE`s France-based teams. Due to COVID-19 travel restrictions, Volvo Group CEO Martin Lundstedt, Volvo CE president Melker Jernberg and Volvo Trucks President Roger Alm participated digitally.

[By 2030, we want over a third of the machines the Volvo Group sells to be electric. We can`t do this alone, we want to do this together with our customers, partners like Eiffage and the wider society," said Volvo Group CEO, Martin Lundstedt. [Today is an exciting landmark on this journey to shape the future of transport and infrastructure."

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