Orange EV, a manufacturer of Class 8 all-electric terminal trucks, has announced that its deployed fleet has surpassed 10 million hours of operation across 340 fleets.
“This milestone confirms Orange EV as the most proven and widely adopted heavy-duty EV in North America, delivering reliability, savings, and sustainability at scale, while setting new standards for uptime, longevity and savings,” said the company.
Orange delivered its first truck in 2015. Since then, it has deployed more than 1,600 trucks across 40 US states and 4 Canadian provinces.
Several units have surpassed 30,000 hours of operation and remain in service. Some of them are approaching a decade of use while still running on their original lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery packs, the company said, adding that no Orange EV battery has experienced a thermal event. “This level of durability sets a new standard for what fleets should expect from their equipment.”
Earlier in the year, the company announced a new 7.5-year, 30,000-hour warranty for its terminal trucks.
Terminal trucks, which are also referred to as terminal tractors, as well as by several more colorful names including yard trucks, yard dogs, yard mules and, in the United Kingdom, terminal lorries, are semi-tractor vehicles designed to move semi-trailers within a warehouse facility, cargo yard or intermodal facility.
Source: Orange EV
