British electric truck start-up Tevva has secured type approval for its first full-production vehicle, a 7.5-tonne truck with a range of up to 141 miles.
Twenty examples are due to leave the Tilbury-based firm's manufacturing plant located on the edge of the Thames Freeport during the first week of January, en route to customers.
By the end of the year, Tevva hopes to be producing around 1000 new trucks annually, a figure boosted by the launch in six months' time of a hydrogen-electric range-extender variant, to be followed at the end of the year by a 19-tonne version using the same technology.
