Mack Expands EV Certified Dealer Network
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Mack Trucks now has 65 electric vehicle certified dealers in North America, it said.
The truck maker added 12 EV certified dealers to customers’ options in early December. The latest dealerships to qualify for the certification are in Portland, Maine; Romulus, Mich.; De Pere and Sheboygan, Wis.; Memphis, Tenn.; Dallas; San Diego; Billings, Mont.; Brantford, Etobicoke and Stoney Creek, Ontario; and Saint-Prime, Quebec. Mack has certified EV dealer locations in 29 states and four Canadian provinces.
The certification enables dealerships to provide sales and service support for Mack’s EV lineup, the truck maker said. Dealers must complete technical training programs, upgrade facilities with high-capacity charging infrastructure and maintain specialized safety protocols to obtain certification.
Mack’s battery-electric truck lineup comprises the LR Electric Class 8 refuse truck and the MD Electric medium-duty truck.
Volvo Group AB-owned Mack introduced the MD Electric in March 2023 during a press event at the 2023 NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis. The LR Electric, the company’s first step into battery-electric trucks, entered serial production at Mack’s Lehigh Valley Operations facility in Macungie, Pa., in December 2021.
Randall
“The continued expansion of our certified EV dealership network demonstrates our commitment, and our dealers’ commitment, to a sustainable future,” said Jonathan Randall, president of Mack Trucks North America. “Together with our Mack dealers, we help make this possible by offering customers support from the purchase of the vehicle, seeking of incentives, infrastructure readiness and training to help them better acclimate to the new technology and to further the adoption of EV vehicles.”
The MD Electric is available in Class 6 and 7 ratings. The Class 6 option has a gross vehicle weight rating of 25,995 pounds, and the Class 7 model has a GVWR of 33,000 pounds. It is offered in dry van/refrigerated, stake/flatbed and dump formats.
The Mack MD Electric, introduced in March 2023. (Keiron Greenhalgh/Transport Topics)
Mack has introduced a number of initiatives over the past few quarters to boost battery-electric truck sales. These include a mobile off-grid charging unit that is attached to an MD Electric as well as a usage-based leasing option for the MD Electric that allows fleets to sample an electric truck in their operations via a subscription. Mack’s ElectriFi Subscription program allows carriers to “pay as they go” based on miles driven on a monthly basis. Subscription terms begin at three years, with an option to extend as far out as six years.
Mack is investing $14.5 million in upgrades of its Roanoke Valley Operations manufacturing facility in Roanoke, Va., in anticipation of increased demand for its diesel and battery-electric medium-duty trucks. Mack said in February that the investment will provide equipment, tooling and a 72,000-square-foot building expansion, lifting the facility’s footprint to 352,000 square feet. Construction is expected to be completed by the fourth quarter of 2025, a spokeswoman confirmed Dec. 9.
A total of 431 dealerships sell Mack trucks.
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