Flexis is on the right path to begin a variety of small electrical profits adapted to urban delivery, the leaders of this joint company launched by Renault, Volvo Trucks and CMA-CGM said on Tuesday.
Nine months after the launch of Flexis, 350 million euros were invested in research and development. The prototypes of the range are already executed and the beginning of the production is planned in mid -2016 in the Renault factory in Sandouville (SENA MARITIMA), together with the Renault Traffic.
The bet is enormous for this potential “Tesla des Useies”, as defined by the head of Renault Luca de Meo.
It is for the diamond brand to recover in the market of small public service companies, with its interesting margins, and for Volvo, specialist in large vans and trucks, to place there.
The leaders of the Stellantis and Ford market, but also to the newcomers as Rivian criticized their ranges to seduce carriers, while the European Commission summarizes them by 2035.
Among the three body presented on Tuesday to the press in a warehouse in Essonne, the “passing truck” must be the emblematic vehicle of the new brand, with its modernized and aerodynamic dairy truck profile.
Connected solutions
With its low load threshold, its sliding doors in the front and direct access from the cabin to the loading space, where one can circulate standing up, must make the distributors’ rates in the city less hell.
At each stop, the distributor activates a central button that lights the anguish lights, opens the partition and warns it if a scooter or other vehicle reaches the track.
The trucks will be available with two types of batteries, with LFP (lithium, iron, phosphate) technology with autonomy of up to 450 kilometers or NMC (nickel, manganese, cobalt) at a more measured cost.
Volvo Trucks has brought connected solutions from the world of trucks (followed by tours, predictive maintenance) still weird in vans.
The price of the three trucks will only be announced at the end of 2025, but Flexis Philippe Drry president promises that they will be “20% more effective than a diesel model”, which is “cheaper to operate and allow to deliver more with more with more the same the same controller “.
Private packages carriers (France, the CMA-CGM subsidiary), DB Schencker (Germany) and Hive (United Kingdom) signed the first letters of intention for a first wave of a total of 15,000 vehicles for three years, a flexis announced . The company plans to go from 100 to 200 employees at the end of 2025.
Source: BFM TV
