Scania receives an order from Girteka for 600 electric trucks

The Lithuanian transport company Girteka has just announced a collaboration agreement with Scania, as a result of which the Swedish manufacturer will deliver a total of 600 electric trucks over the next four yearsAdditionally, both companies will also collaborate in the creation of a charging network for these electric trucks.

With this agreement, Girteka hopes to be able to reduce the level of emissions in its operations, thereby assuming acceptable costs for the company. Girteka Logistics was founded in 1996 in the Lithuanian city of Vilnius. At that time the company's fleet consisted of a single truck, for the nearly 10 thousand that it has now.

Scania views this agreement very positively, as it considers Girteka to be a highly relevant partner, as it is one of the most powerful companies in the European freight transport sector.

A good number of Scania customers place orders for more than 40 electric trucks

For the moment, neither Scania nor Girteka have revealed any details about the specific model or models of electric trucks that will be delivered as a result of this agreement between the two companies. Scania began selling its first electric truck in September 2020, with two different configurations. Although both offer a power of 230 kW, the battery pack capacity of the first is 165 kWh, compared to 300 kWh for the second. The latter's range is up to 250 km..

Last September, the Swedish manufacturer, part of the Volkswagen Group, announced its intention to to market exclusively electric trucks from 2040, thus discontinuing all those powered by a diesel engine.

Christian Levin, the company's CEO, went so far as to say at the time that Scania was the truck manufacturer that had gone furthest in its desire to remove the diesel combustion engine from its product portfolio.