Volvo Trucks

So it's not just one truck.

It's the FH, FM, FMX and FH aero electric trucks made by Volvo Trucks, presented at the IAA Transportation Show in Hanover.

It's the eighth win for Volvo Trucks.

I'll check if it's the first electric win.

That's so cool.

So that's where we get our trailers from.

And then all of our other supplies we get from places around town, like our trucks, our Volvo trucks.

So we get from Babine, we get work done there.

We also buy parts from there.

It's been interesting over the 15 years I've been with the team at Oberon.

Moving this technology to commercialization, expanding markets, we've had partnerships with Volvo Trucks, Mack Trucks, Ford, Suburban Propane, now working with Aeropress, the largest manufacturing distributor of aerosol propellants in the U.S., as well as L'Oreal.

And what's interesting in working with these large corporations is making sure you have the right decision makers at the table, the people who can champion it and also bring in the procurement team, bring in safety, bring in the R&D team, bring in all the key stakeholders to move this forward because it's not the same as what they've already done.

Right.

Electric trucks are still a small but increasing share of new registrations, leaving the next stage of the market open, ripe, if you like, for new entrants to bring the competition.

Daimler Truck, Trayton, including Scania and MAN, Evico, DAF, and the Volvo Group, like Volvo Trucks and Renault Trucks, dominate the European Union's truck market with an annual volume of almost a quarter of a million vehicles.

Chinese makers have registered for the IAA Transportation Show this week, and they'll be showing up the likes of, well, Names you may not know, or maybe you do.

Sunny, Sino Truck, Super Panther.

Yeah.

But the English ones are just, it's like someone's turned up at Chassis Cab or Volvo Trucks and gone, right, I'll have that one.

Just slap a little bit of blue paint on and that's it.

And they look terrible.