Ryder Deploys Volvo VNR Electrical Vehicles – Gasoline Smarts

Volvo Vehicles North America delivered seven Volvo VNR Electrical vans to Ryder System to assist native provide chain routes servicing the Volvo Group’s Mack truck meeting operations in Pennsylvania. Ryder changed the diesel vans that had been beforehand servicing the route and can function the devoted zero-tailpipe-emissions Class 8 battery-electric vans to assist the Volvo Group’s sustainability purpose of lowering carbon dioxide from its world operations. 

Ryder started working the Volvo VNR Electrical vans on two shifts finishing as much as eight spherical journeys each day, with all seven vans transporting meeting kits of elements for heavy-duty vans on the close by kitting facility to Mack Vehicles’ Lehigh Valley Operations (LVO) plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

To cost the autos, Ryder initially is utilizing 5 cell 50-kW chargers out there on the plant. These might be changed with six everlasting chargers — 5 100-kW chargers and one 150-kW charger — that are at the moment being put in. 

Volvo Monetary Providers labored with Ryder to position all seven of the VNR Electrical vans on five-year vehicle-as-a-service honest market worth (FMV) leases. The FMV lease mannequin, which permits a fleet to lease a automobile for a specified time interval, gives the choice for Ryder to buy the Volvo VNR Electrical vans on the present market price on the finish of the lease time period. The leasing program with VFS helps to decrease the upfront funding and threat whereas fleets proceed to evolve expertise and choices with battery-electric vans. 

“Ryder has been a long-standing chief in integrating various gas autos into our fleet with a purpose of driving extra sustainable options for our clients,” added Steve Sensing, Ryder president for provide chain options. “The work that Volvo Vehicles has executed to speed up Class 8 battery-electric know-how is spectacular, with profitable working fleets.”

LVO is the second Volvo Group plant to deploy Volvo VNR Electrical vans to move inbound components and elements each day, with the Volvo Vehicles’ New River Valley (NRV) truck meeting operations in Dublin, Virginia, integrating the battery-electric mannequin into its routes earlier this 12 months. 5 Volvo VNR Electrical vans are devoted models for the NRV plant, with every truck working on two shifts for 4 to 5 spherical journeys every day, averaging eight miles per route.  

Volvo Vehicles started taking business orders for its Volvo VNR Electrical mannequin in December 2020 and in January 2022, introduced its enhanced VNR Electrical mannequin, which options notable enhancements in battery design and storage capability, leading to elevated vary and sooner charging, with a devoted battery thermal administration system to keep up supreme environmental temperatures.

“Volvo Vehicles is dedicated to constructing a decarbonized future and dealing with provider and service companions, similar to Ryder, who’re dedicated to sustainability,” stated Peter Voorhoeve, president, Volvo Vehicles North America in a press release. “One among our core firm values is environmental stewardship, and by manufacturing and using our personal zero-tailpipe emission vans, we’re making good on our promise to steer the business transport business towards extra sustainable options by advancing electromobility.”