Volvo Trucks, IKEA Industry and the Raben Group have signed a cooperation agreement in the field of zero-emission heavy transport. IKEA will introduce Volvo heavy electric trucks for internal transport flows at two of its factories in Zbąszynek, Poland, which will be operated by the Raben Group. Lessons learned from the pilot project will be used to electrify transport operations at scale in a larger transport network.

IKEA is a major customer of transport with more than two million shipments worldwide per year. To achieve its strategic climate target of reducing GHG emissions from product transportation by -70% per shipment (Compared to the 2017 base year, excluding last mile deliveries to customers), heavy-duty vehicle electrification is critical. Electrification of transport is one of the solutions to tackle the root cause of climate change.

IKEA Industry, Volvo Trucks and the Raben Group have now joined forces in Poland to deploy zero-emission Volvo FM Electric trucks. The vehicles will be used for the internal flow of goods between two IKEA Industry factories located 14 kilometers apart in Zbąszynek and Babimost in western Poland.

The trucks will be charged at IKEA Industry's production facilities using renewable electricity from an outside source. The first electric truck will be commissioned in the fall and the plan is to expand the fleet based on the lessons learned from the pilot project.