Dalmia Cement Bharat commissions IPLTech Electric to provide 22 electric trucks

Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited (DCBL), an Indian cement major and a subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Limited announced the launch of its e-Truck initiative in India. The company aims to accelerate its sustainability goals and optimise the overall logistics cost through this initiative. IPLTech Electric, India’s first manufacturer of electric trucks has been commissioned by DCBL to provide these EVs.

A company statement said that as part of the initiative’s first phase, two of the proposed 22 High Capacity Electric trucks have been put on the track and the balance 20 will be put to use before the end of FY 22. The trucks will ply to transport slag (a major raw material for cement manufacturing) from the facility of Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) at Rourkela to DCBL’s cement manufacturing unit in Rajgangpur. Additionally, the company has commissioned 2 charging stations at its Rajgangpur Unit and three more charging stations will be installed by March 2022.

Mahendra Singhi, Managing Director and CEO at DCBL said, “DCBL has always led the agenda of creating a holistic business ecosystem that encourages sustainable growth. By introducing our electric vehicle (EV) fleets nationally in partnership with SAIL, we are confident we will be able to achieve our sustainability goals of becoming carbon negative by 2040.” The company is committed to the EV100 initiative.

It should be noted that Gurgaon based IPLTech Electric had launched its first electric truck RHINO 5536 back in 2019. You can read more about the vehicle here and here.

Specifications of Rhino 5536