Charged EVs | Volvo, ZF, Cummins win $441 million in DOE funding to accelerate heavy-duty electric truck production

The US DOE has awarded practically half a billion bucks to 3 corporations underneath the Home Manufacturing Conversion grant program to assist speed up the manufacturing of industrial quality electrical vehicles and associated powertrain elements.

Volvo Know-how of America will obtain $208 to improve services on the Volvo Group’s Lehigh Valley Operations truck meeting website in Macungie, Pennsylvania, the place it produces Mack vehicles, and its New River Valley truck manufacturing plant in Dublin, Virginia.

“The upgrades allow a novel manufacturing strategy that can considerably improve the manufacturing capability potential of battery-electric automobiles [and] gas cell electrical automobiles,” stated the corporate.

“By facility upgrades and worker coaching, this grant will assist our US crops extra effectively produce the modern vehicles and zero-emission powertrain elements important to this transition,” stated Stephen Roy, Chairman of Volvo Group North America and President of Mack Vans.

The tasks are anticipated to create 295 new union jobs for Volvo and Mack.

The most recent spherical of funding additionally included nearly $158 million for ZF Axle Drives to transform a part of its Marysville, Michigan, facility from ICE element manufacturing to EV element manufacturing.

Cummins will obtain $75 million in matching funds to transform 360,000 sq. toes of an engine plant in Columbus, Indiana, to fabricate electrical powertrain methods.

Supply: Trucking Dive