StreetScooter and Ford teaming up for electric delivery vehicles
Deutsche Post subsidiary StreetScooter and Ford are teaming up to make battery-electric delivery vehicles. The vehicle that the companies will be working together to make will use the chassis of the Ford Transit as its “technical basis”, so it will be larger than the delivery vehicles that StreetScooter has produced thus far. It will be equipped with a battery-electric drive train and fitted with a special body construction based on Deutsche Post and DHL Paket specifications.
Production is set to start next month (July) and the companies expect that “before the end of 2018 at least 2,500 vehicles will support the urban delivery traffic of Deutsche Post DHL Group”.
According to Deutsche Post, the joint project will “become the largest manufacturer of battery-electric medium-duty delivery vehicles in Europe”.
Jürgen Gerdes, member of the executive board of the Deutsche Post, commented: “This step emphasises that Deutsche Post is an innovation leader. It will relieve the inner cities and increase the people’s quality of life. We will continue working on completely carbon neutral CO2-neutral logistics.”
Alongside its new partnership with Ford, StreetScooter is continuing with its ongoing plans to ramp up its production. The company is planning to manufacture 20,000 units a year of small electrical delivery van in different versions in Aachen and another site in North Rhine-Westphalia. There are currently around 2,500 StreetScooter in use for Deutsche Post throughout Germany.
