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Utilimaster Upfits Ford Pro E-Transit Customer Pilot Vehicles
The pilot program vehicles are road ready and will be in use through 2023.
December 22, 2021
The pilot program vehicles are road ready and will be in use through 2023.
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Utilimaster, a brand of The Shyft Group's Fleet Vehicles & Services business unit, has announced it has worked with Ford Pro to produce two pilot vehicles built on the all-electric Ford E-Transit chassis for customer testing.
As the chosen body provider for the Ford Pro E-Transit pilot program, Utilimaster has engineered its Velocity body to fit the E-Transit cutaway. One of the completed all-electric vehicles is comparable to Utilimaster's Velocity F-Series for gas-powered Transit chassis fleet customers, but designed specifically for the E-Transit's all-electric architecture. The other unit features a renewed Utilimaster route-delivery body often seen in the snack food industry.
The pilot program vehicles are road ready and will be in use through 2023.
Originally posted on Work Truck Online
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