Zenobē recently announced plans to make a $100 million investment into the Australian market – and that investment is quickly bearing fruit in the form of a new strategic partnership with Aussie appliance brand Winnings.
Founded way back in 1906, the Winnings brand isn’t resting on its laurels. Instead, the brand is looking to the future and working towards the goal of a fully electrified, end-to-end delivery network – and they’re partnering with the energy and EV experts at Zenobē to help make that happen.
Winnings’ latest rollout includes a total of 30 new electric fleet vehicles. Ten 4.5-ton medium duty Foton T5e-trucks in New South Wales and twenty 8.5-ton MD electric trucks in Altona, Victoria.
The entire new Winning Group fleet will be deployed alongside new charging infrastructure designed and built by Zenobē under the EV as a service (EVaaS) business model the company has successfully deployed in Europe and North America.
“Projects like this demonstrate how electrification can be scaled across diverse sectors,” explains Gareth Ridge, Country Director Australia and New Zealand at Zenobē. “By combining vehicles, charging infrastructure and ongoing support into a single service, we’re helping partners like Winnings transition with confidence while reducing both cost and risk,”
The project is supported by funds from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), where CEO Darren Miller echoes Zenobē’s goal of helping reduce risk for companies looking to follow Winnings’ lead when it comes to fleet electrification.
“ARENA’s role is to help de-risk first-of-a-kind projects like this and ensure the lessons are shared,” says Miller. “The insights from this project on costs, performance, charging and operations will help other freight operators make informed decisions.”
As fuel prices continue to climb globally in the wake of the Trump Administration’s ongoing war with Iran, expect more fleets to continue exploring – and deploying! – electric options.
Electrek’s Take
As I wrote when news of Zenobē’s latest school bus deployment was announced, pumping diesel exhaust into the air at face-height for most school-age kids is bad, and anyone who says otherwise is a lunatic (at best). The same holds true in the commercial truck space. As such, the more we can replace diesel box trucks with vehicles, the better off our kids will be.
SOURCE | IMAGES: Zenobē.
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