At the Smart Energy Expo in Sydney during May, The Australian Clean Energy EV Group (ACE-EV Group) launched the V1 Transformer Van which only rolled of the production line seven days earlier.
The previously unseen V1 Transformer was badged by the Hon Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, and ACE EV Managing Director Greg McGarvie.
Greg McGarvie Managing Director said, “We are so proud to be launching our range of EVs at the Expo and even more excited to bring automotive advanced manufacturing back into Australia, new jobs for assembly, servicing and repair and creating new supply pipelines”.
“ACE EV Group is Australian, a Hervey Bay company that started in a suburban garage seven years ago”.
“It has secured Australia Directors as shareholders, out of Stuttgart, and Taipei. ACE EV Group has secured their IP and technology, including skills and knowledge of our German and Taiwanese Directors”.
“ACE EV Group vehicle genetics, trace back to the smart car with Ernst Thomke of Swatch Group Fame”.
“Our technology background goes deep and links with the growth of Taiwan’s semiconductor industry over 30 years ago. Our new generation EV’s are steeped in German, Swiss and Taiwanese engineering, and design along with Chinese technology”.
Greg McGarvie and Will Qiang, of Hervey Bay Queensland are two of the four Directors of ACE-EV Group, together they masterminded bringing the affordable EVs introducing advanced composite manufacturing to Australia with Directors appointed from Germany and Taiwan.
“We are launching the V1 Transformer Van at the Expo; the 2022 Woolworths vehicle purpose-built for shopping trolley collection will also be on display. The public will be able to see and touch the technology firsthand and book test drives”.
“Australians know about the environmental benefits and enormous cost savings that come with EV’s, but have been extremely limited by choice and affordability, we along with others are changing that. Our Yewt, Cargo and Urban 100%, incorporate technologies developed between Australia, Germany, and Taiwan”.
“ACE electric vehicles will have the added benefit of being made here, in a secondary manufacturing process then as volume builds, pivoting toward more than 50% locally sourced content,” said Greg.
Fleet operators understand that electric vehicles are ideal for businesses and fleet operations offering significant operator cost savings and reducing transport impacts of pollution.
Woolworths’ 360 Proactive Services team is currently piloting two ACE electric trolley collection vehicles in Western Sydney, with more of the electric utes set to arrive from ACE throughout 2023 to make its trolley collection trucks greener, quieter, and more efficient.
