Australian refrigerated truck assembler Eurocold has launched Revora – a Brisbane-based refrigerated electric truck company.
Revora will use the knowledge built by its founder and managing director Avraam Solomon through three generations in the refrigerated transport industry, along with expertise in the low-to-zero emissions space brought by general manager Nathan Gore-Brown.
The new company aims to empower the refrigerated transport industry towards a sustainable future.
Several key components (chassis, fridge, body, etc) are sourced from operators in Australia and internationally.
Revora will be launched in an electric vans and trucks forum at the Fully Charged Live show in Sydney on March 11 by Gore-Brown.
HesHe comes to Revora with an extensive automotive background from Aston Martin in the United Kingdom, launching Tesla’s initial flagship Brisbane outlet and more recently as a senior consultant to government and private sectors on transport decarbonisation with advisory agency Mov3ment.
The first refrigerated electric truck will displayed at the Brisbane Truck Show, held on May 18-21.
“Revora is a completely separate and new brand to Eurocold – aimed at future-proofing the sustainability of the refrigerated transport industry,” says Solomon.
“Revora will be Australia’s first fully integrated, electric refrigerated truck fleet supplier.”
The program, headed by Gore-Brown, will assess fleet suitabilities to embrace electrification before assisting customers into the crossover. The trucks and energy solutions will be all on a long-term lease with Revora.
Revora’s offering includes initial consultation on current fleet make-up and measurement of diesel usage, suitability to cross over to electric refrigerated trucks, supply of optimised zero-emission refrigerated commercial vehicles, energy/charging stations (optimised for fleet size and operations model), staff training, and on-call support.
To optimise efficiency once going electric, Revora is devising a technology-led process that will assist fleet owners to ensure they are maximising opportunities through telematic data tracking on the vehicles and software to monitor energy systems.
“Avraam has the vision to provide a sustainable future for the refrigerated transport industry through establishing a line of highly efficient, cutting-edge green transport solutions,” says Gore-Borwn.
”Our customer base, partners and alliances are in third party logistics, broadline food services, along with the meat, seafood, dairy and produce industries.”
With the majority of refrigerated transport deliveries being ‘last mile’ deliveries and in urban areas, Gore-Brown believes electric trucks are perfect for this duty cycle.
“EVs are particularly well suited to urban and stop-start tasks,” he says. “This is down to their ability to recapture energy through regenerative braking.
“Typically, the refrigerated transport industry has a large portion of the fleet running last mile delivery and that’s where electric trucks excel.”
“Gore-Brown says electric trucks will provide opportunities for customers to gain new contracts due to businesses wanting to reduce their carbon footprint during the move towards government-mandated net zero emission targets.
He is among presenters at the Fully Charged Live show during an “Electric Vans and Trucks” forum on March 11 in the Mega Theatre at ICC Sydney, 12.15-12.45pm.
The forum is hosted by Sam Evans (The Electric Viking) and Peter Benardos (EV Automotive), and it will also include Oliver Peagam (LDV Automotive) and Jack Scarlett (Fully Charged).
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