Naftali Bennett's brother launches electric truck

• Author: ZEV STUB
• Published date: 29 September 2021

Tevva, founded by Asher Bennett in London in 2013, said on Tuesday it launched its new electric truck, a 7.5-ton vehicle believed to be the first of its kind intended for production in the UK.

The new truck has a range of up to 160 miles (250 km.) in pure battery electric vehicle (BEV) form or up to 310 miles (500 km.) with its range extender technology (REX), the company said. The Tevva truck will address the British trucking industry's immediate need to electrify, with the UK and Europe committed to a target of net-zero emissions by 2050 alongside a proposed ban on the sale of all polluting vehicles by 2035. Production of the Tevva truck is due to commence in July 2022, with pre-orders already being taken.

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The truck's lithium-ion battery is based on the technology that 52-year old Asher worked on as a submarine officer in the Israel Navy decades earlier, he said.

Tevva, whose name is Hebrew for "nature," raised $12.5 million in February. "The passion in the market for EV freight truck technology is incredibly apparent," Bennett said at the time. "Once we were able to break the range barrier for electric battery propulsion – which we did by utilizing the concepts I had learned as a submarine officer in the Israeli Navy – investors have continued to vote with their wallets."

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