Volta Trucks
Volta Trucks, the leading and disruptive full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has revealed the details of its first customer ‘Studio’ and headquarter building in Paris, as it prepares for the first full-electric Volta Zero commercial vehicles to start operating on the city’s streets by the end of the year.
The Volta Trucks Studio in Paris is the first of many in-market headquarters where the company will operate its commercial operations and welcome customers during the sales process. The Studio experience will be educational, informative, and displaying the essence of the Volta Trucks brand.
The Volta Trucks Studio is on the historic Rue Edouard VII, off the Boulevard des Capucines in the 9th Arrondissement of Paris, linking the Madeleine and Opera districts. The central facility is perfectly located amongst offices, shops, homes, restaurants, hotels, and theatres, and near where many of the company’s customers will live and work.
The Volta Trucks Studio concept complements the recently announced Volta Trucks Hub facility delivering its Truck as a Service maintenance, aftersales operations, and hosting admin offices, a Volta Trucks Academy training center, and a Call Centre providing the interface between customers and the company’s team of technical and commercial experts, 24/7/365. The recently announced ‘Volta Trucks Hub’ in Paris is in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, to the south-east of Paris, and will serve the important logistics centers of Rungis, Orly, Créteil and Bonneuil-sur-Marne, where Volta Trucks’ customers have distribution warehouses.
Paris is one of two EU launch markets for Volta Trucks with London. Under current legislation, diesel engine vehicles will be banned from operating in Paris from 2024 as all French cities of more than 150,000 residents adopt new Low Emissions Zones. The French government is offering incentives of up to €100,000 for the transition to zero-tailpipe emission vehicles, making the acceleration of fleet electrification of paramount importance to French fleet operators.
The company will soon announce the location of the Volta Trucks Hub in London, but the London Studio operations will be managed within the company’s Commercial and Research and Development base on the M4 corridor between Reading and Bracknell, close to the operations of its UK customers. Studios and Hub locations will be confirmed across the remaining EU launch cities of Madrid, Milan, the Rhine-Ruhr region of Germany, and the Randstad region of the Netherlands in due course.