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By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) - Deutsche Bahn's logistics unit Schenker will order almost 1,500 electric trucks from startup Volta Trucks to transport goods from European terminals into city centres and urban areas, the companies said on Tuesday.

The logistics service provider DB Schenker has pre-ordered almost 1,500 electric trucks from Volta Trucks. As part of the partnership, DB Schenker will use the first prototype of the Volta Zero under real distribution conditions in the spring and summer of 2022. The findings from these tests will

Volta Trucks and its strategic design partner, Astheimer Design of Warwick, have won the Dezeen Product Design award 2021, announced during an online awards ceremony from Dezeen’s creative studio in London.

The 12 winning design projects for Dezeen Awards 2021 have been revealed in a video show hosted by LionHeart and Nelly Ben Hayoun.

The Volta Zero is marketed as the world’s first purpose-built all-electric 16 tonne commercial vehicle.

We're the kind of people that love watching big diesel trucks roll absolute coal down long stretches of asphalt. Most of the people who live in the world's biggest cities probably don't hold the same opinion. If we'd hazard to guess, they'd probably prefer the all-new 16-ton Zero all-electric delivery truck just unveiled by the hotshot EV Upstart Volta.

The Zero is a BEV available in three sizes, but we still don’t know their exact specs yet, other than the stated range of between 95 and 125 miles.

Projects by Marjan Van Aubel Studio and The New Raw have been chosen by our readers as winners of the Dezeen Awards 2021 public vote.

Volta Trucks brings its Volta Zero fully electric truck to the Netherlands, as part of the company’s market expansion in Europe.

Volta Trucks says Steyr Automotive was chosen to build its Volta Zero BEVs based in part on its experience in commercial vehicle manufacturing.