Commercial leasing company Volt Mobility’s customers include UPS, DHL and FedEx, and now they can boast of having one of the largest electric vehicle fleets in the world – because they just ordered 3,000 electric trucks from Mullen.
Volt Mobility has ordered 3,000 Class 1 and 3 electric vans valued at $210 million to be delivered over the next sixteen months. From there, Volt will lease the vehicles to its corporate customer base across the Gulf Cooperation Council (“GCC”) region, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“Volt is transforming the way people and businesses move in the UAE and GCC,” said David Michery, CEO and Chairman of Mullen Automotive. “This landmark agreement gives Mullen access to leading global transportation companies and the opportunity to deploy Mullen electric vehicles in the UAE and other areas of the Middle East.”
Mullen says Volt Mobility’s vehicles will be assembled at the company’s commercial vehicle facility in Tunica, Mississippi, a former GM plant capable of producing 20,000 Class 1 vehicles and 6,000 Class 3 vehicles annually in two-shift operations.
Mullen will receive a $3 million deposit within 60 days, with additional payments due once the vehicles are delivered to Volt.
Electrek’s opinion
Against all odds, Mullen is still alive. And seemingly more alive than ever – constantly defying the naysayers who expect his next press release to pave the way for him to follow the example of the Tasmanian Tiger, the Dodo, and the first, second, and fourth incarnations of Fisker. Likewise, you wouldn’t expect a logistics fleet in the Middle East to prefer electric over diesel… I certainly wouldn’t. So I should probably wrap up one of the topics of this article.
“At Volt, we don’t just follow trends, we set them,” said Sophia Nau, Managing Director and CFO of Volt Mobility. “Our mission is clear: We want to lead the change towards sustainable, efficient and state-of-the-art transport.”
SOURCE | IMAGES: Volt Mobility, via Mullen USA.
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