New electric truck sends clear signal
Altishofen LU – Four Swiss companies have jointly developed a new electric truck. The vehicle offers a battery capacity of 900 kilowatt hours. With this high-performance electric truck, the partners are sending a clear signal of their commitment to electromobility.
The logistics firm Galliker Transport, based in Altishofen in the canton of Lucerne, has developed a new electric truck that offers “unique battery performance” in conjunction with three other partners, further details of which can be found in a press release. The partners include Futuricum, the Designwerk GmbH brand for electrified heavy goods vehicles (HGVs), the transport service provider Friderici Special and the construction machinery rental company Aveso Rent. The battery capacity of 900 kilowatt hours (kWh) is described as a “world first ‘Engineered in Switzerland’” in the press release.
The partners have manufactured two units of the new electric truck, which are now being used by Galliker Transport and Friderici Special. The Federal Roads Office (FEDRO) issued a special permit for the production and use of the two trucks, which made it possible to increase the vehicle length by an additional meter and the payload by two tons. With electromobility now also making waves in the heavy and special transport sector, the four partners are sending out “a clear signal” of their commitment to electromobility, the press release explains.
With a range of 500 kilometers, the electric truck is “on par with diesel vehicles”, comments Peter Galliker, CEO and co-owner of Galliker Transport, in the press release. The company has already ordered a further three electric trucks from Futuricum. One of these has been earmarked for use as a car transporter for new and used vehicles in Switzerland from 2022 onwards, which, according to the company, represents another first. “It is important to us to always be one step ahead in sustainable innovations”, says Chairman of the Board and co-owner Rolf Galliker.
According to Peter Galliker, the company has set itself the goal of amassing a fully CO2-neutral fleet of vehicles by 2050. Fabian Peter, member of the cantonal government of Lucerne and head of the Department of Construction, Environment and Economic Affairs, was full of praise for this innovation: “We need private companies like the Galliker family business that invest in technical progress”, he explains in the press release.
