<story><title>Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvo-electric/volvo-trucks-to-launch-full-range-of-electric-trucks-in-europe-in-2021-idUSKBN27L0SI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>stiray</author><text>Actually I was quite surprised that those are ordinary trucks without superhero style exterior etc. I think that this is a recipe for success of electric vehicles (and they are hurting EV market on long run) - not that they look like from outer space (at hefty price mark) but comparable to prices of non-EV while driving on electricity.&lt;p&gt;What companies like Tesla do is driving the hype for the sake of stock market, which is wrong - the target should be users of vehicles and the purpose they were purposed for.&lt;p&gt;I would choose the Volvo over any newage design with huge waste of space for transport - they are meant to be a TRANSPORT vehicles not a design for driving to a shopping mall picking chicks (that dont care about transport vehicle anyway).&lt;p&gt;And Volvo did it right. Targeting purpose, targeting users and business. Congrats. Finally.</text></comment>
<story><title>Volvo Trucks to launch full range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volvo-electric/volvo-trucks-to-launch-full-range-of-electric-trucks-in-europe-in-2021-idUSKBN27L0SI</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>c0nfused</author><text>Since the article is short on details here is the Volvo trucks page.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&amp;#x2F;en-en&amp;#x2F;trucks&amp;#x2F;alternative-fuels&amp;#x2F;electric-trucks.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.volvotrucks.com&amp;#x2F;en-en&amp;#x2F;trucks&amp;#x2F;alternative-fuels&amp;#x2F;e...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;They appear to be in the testing stage</text></comment>