Danish BankeElectromotive and Lutsk Automobile Plant No. 1 of Bogdan Motors have signed contract for engineering (designing of the structural model) and production of trucks for collecting waste by municipalities of cities and towns all over the European Union. Bogdan Corporation said in a press release that the company seeks to produce at least 15 electric trucks for Denmark in 2018. In general, the need of BankeElectromotive is around 200 trucks a year.
The first trucks will be manufactured this summer. If its tests are successful, bulk production of trucks for Western Europe will begin this year.
Director of the automobile plant Dmytro Pysany said that the signing of the contract with the western European company is confirmation of high skills of specialists of the Bogdan Motors design bureau.
BankeElectromotive designs and produces electric trucks for urban use and spare parts for them for the EU market. “The issue of electric transport for Bogdan Motors is not new. The enterprise has experience in manufacturing modern trolleybuses for Ukraine and Europe, electric buses for Poland and electric bus bodies for France,” the corporation said.
The corporation reminds that it will also manufacture the bodies for electric buses of the French company Bluebus. The parties signed the contract. Under the first contract, the Ukrainian manufacturer will supply five 12-meter bus bodies to Bluebus. The customer will receive them before the end of May. Bogdan expects to extend the contract and deepen cooperation in the future.
