Electric RVs

Medium-duty truck electrifier Motiv will use part of a $60 million injection from Winnebago and a private holding company in Colorado to open an engineering center in Detroit.

“Our customers are hungry for all-electric mobile solutions developed on our commercial shells, especially in California,” Winnebago vice president of Strategic Planning and Development Ashis Bhattacharya told FreightWaves.

Motiv has developed an electrified architecture based on Ford’s F59 and E-450 medium-duty truck chassis, allowing truck builders a zero-emissions alternative to the standard gas- and diesel-burning models.