Shyft Group, one of many nation’s largest producers of commercial work vehicles, plans to debut an electrical class 5 crew cab truck Wednesday on the NTEA Work Truck Present in Indianapolis.

The Blue Arc-brand truck has a walk-in-van fashion cab with a sliding door, seating for six and room to arrange a cellular workstation – an uncommon structure for a category 5 truck.

“It is about flexibility, innovation and creating distinctive options for our clients,” Shyft CEO Daryl Adams mentioned in an announcement previous to Wednesday’s reveal.

He informed Automotive Information that one configuration of the truck can be ultimate for transferring firms. A whole crew, he mentioned, may journey to the job within the truck. At the moment’s transferring vehicles normally solely have room for the motive force and one or two passengers.

The car’s electrical powertrain, which delivers about 200 miles per cost, helped allow the truck’s inside design. The flat flooring, for example, made including the additional seats attainable since there is no such thing as a hump for the transmission.

Shyft mentioned the truck is being constructed with a liquid-cooled lithium ion battery pack and will probably be obtainable with an elective 450-watt-hour built-in photo voltaic roof bundle. With a stage 2 charger, the truck will be recharged in two to 6 hours. The truck will probably be obtainable in a variety of configurations and as a chassis that may underpin electrical buses, motorcoaches and shuttles.

Shyft, previously referred to as Spartan Motors, plans to fabricate the brand new truck at its Charlotte, Mich., plant, which is present process an growth.

The model of the truck debuting on the NTEA present was designed by Shyft’s DuraMag division and has a payload capability between 6,000 and 10,000 kilos.

Shyft has not mentioned pricing.

Additionally on the NTEA present this week:

Workhorse Group Inc. is debuting a category 5 and sophistication 6 electrical step van, the W56. The car can haul as much as 10,000 kilos and journey 150 miles on a cost, Workhorse mentioned. The physique has a lowered step-in and large door to make ingress and egress simpler. The cargo field can maintain measures simply over 1,000 cubic ft.

“The W56 marks the primary official car designed and produced underneath our revamped workforce,” Rick Dauch, Workhorse CEO mentioned in an announcement. “It’s the end result of many hours of onerous work mixed with the method enhancements carried out during the last 18 months.”

Workhorse plans to start manufacturing of the W56 at its Union Metropolis, Ind., plant within the third quarter.

Mullen Automotive, the Brea, Calif., startup that swallowed the stays of Electrical Final Mile Options and acquired a controlling curiosity in Bollinger Motors, is exhibiting two industrial EV vehicles at NTEA.

First up is a category 1 EV cargo van, maybe the dimensions of a Ford Transit Join. The opposite car is a category 3 medium-duty tilt cab field truck. Mullen didn’t present any technical particulars forward of the autos’ debut. The corporate mentioned each vehicles will probably be launched later within the yr.

“NTEA is the biggest industrial truck present in North America and is an ideal platform for Mullen Industrial,” Mullen CEO David Michery mentioned in an announcement. “This present provides us the chance to determine the Mullen Industrial model with two nice choices which might be coming to market this yr.”

NTEA’s Work Truck Week 2023 ends Friday and is going down on the Indiana Conference Middle. This yr there are 511 exhibitors displaying the trade’s newest merchandise and know-how.