Thor Trucks Takes Different Approach to Electric Trucks
Thor Trucks is a new electric truck company focused that is initially focused on regional haul applications. Photo: Thor Trucks
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What do you get when you get together a group of West Coast tech heads with family backgrounds in trucking? A whole new electric truck company, that’s what. At least that’s what Giordano Sordoni thinks.
Sordoni is the co-founder and chief operating officer of Thor Trucks, a Los Angeles-based truck manufacturer and technology lab. He told HDT in an interview that the Thor Trucks team is focused on providing long-haul electric truck solutions for the industry today that are “reasonable and profitable now.” The resulting prototype is a tough-looking regional-haul truck with an aggressive stance and styling that even old school truckers can appreciate.
But styling cues aside, Sordoni says the Thor truck – and his company’s vision – is firmly rooted in future technology and the rapid changes coming at trucking.
“The push toward more in-home delivery is where our vision was born,” Sordoni said. “Our families have a fleet background, so we understand the challenges of compliance, maintenance, fluctuating fuel prices, and other trucking issues today. And an electric truck solves a lot of those problems. You go from a vehicle with 2,000 moving parts to fewer than 20, so maintenance is cheaper. There’s no exhaust treatment or diesel particulate filter to deal with. And, if you get enough of these trucks on the road, you’ll eventually see fuel prices stabilize. So electric trucks are actually good for fleets that run diesel, too.”
The God of Thunder Comes to Trucking
The first Thor truck, dubbed the ET-One, is spec’d for regional haul applications with daily ranges of 300 miles or less.
The company says the truck features instananeous torque starting at 0 rpm, with powertrain options ranging from 300 to 700 hp. The …Read the rest of this story
