Orange EV Books 600-Truck Terminal Tractor Order

Orange EV said it booked record order volume for electric terminal trucks, including a single 600-truck order, the largest deal in the company's history.

The company announced the order on June 2, saying deployment has already started and full rollout is expected in 2026. The package includes electric terminal tractors, chargers, and battery energy storage systems.

From pilots to scaled yard fleets

Orange EV framed the order as evidence that yard electrification is moving beyond trial deployments. The company said customers are placing larger orders after testing the trucks in day-to-day yard operations, then standardizing around electric terminal tractors when uptime and operating-cost targets hold up.

The company says more than 1,900 Orange EV trucks are now in service, including an early deployment with DHL in 2015. President and CTO Kurt Neutgens said the company's customers are buying in the hundreds because total cost of ownership has been proven through uptime, reliability, fuel savings, and service guarantees.

Service model matters

The latest orders include uptime guarantees and extended warranties, according to the company. Orange EV also said it is ramping capacity, service support, and CCS1-compatible options as deployments grow.

One claim will get attention from yard operators: Orange EV says its tractors can save $500,000 in total cost of ownership over a diesel unit across 10 years, before incentives. That is a vendor claim, but it points to why terminal tractors have become one of the more practical early commercial-EV use cases.

For fleets, the story is less about electric adoption in the abstract and more about a narrow duty cycle that can be measured. Yard trucks run repeatable routes, return to base, and rack up idle-heavy fuel burn, which makes the economics easier to test than long-haul electrification.