Hexagon Purus entered a partnership with Velocity Vehicle Group, a group of commercial vehicle dealers in the U.S., to deliver battery packs and powertrain integration for medium-duty battery electric trucks in California based on Freightliner’s Class 6 M2 platform.

Hexagon Purus will deliver solutions that will convert up to 100 model year 2021 Freightliner M2 medium-duty trucks to Hexagon Purus eM2 emission-free medium duty electrical vehicle trucks. The design will be built upon the platform from Daimler Trucks North America’s Innovation Fleet of battery electric medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. All Innovation Fleet trucks operate using Hexagon Purus’ battery electric solutions and technology. The new zero-emission Hexagon Purus eM2 Class 6 trucks will typically operate as package delivery or utility trucks.

Deliveries of the new zero-emission Hexagon Purus eM2s in 2021 will be mainly to customers operating in California and are expected to begin in Q4/21. In 2022, deliveries of trucks operating in other states in the U.S. also are expected.

“We are committed to providing leading-edge clean vehicles to our customer base and have invested heavily in the infrastructure support, EV maintenance training and product knowledge required to make this happen,” Brad Fauvre and Conan Barker, co-presidents of Velocity Vehicle Group, said in a joint statement. “We are excited to offer the Hexagon Purus eM2 product in cooperation with Hexagon, which will allow our customers in California to achieve zero-emissions this year with a proven platform that includes our support.”

“We are honored to enter this partnership with Velocity Vehicle Group. With a shared commitment to clean transportation solutions, we are proud to see that our offering enables the transition to zero-emission vehicles,” Todd Sloan, executive vice president of systems at Hexagon Purus, said.