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GreenPower launches truck body business

April 25, 2024
California-based manufacturer’s new GP Truck Body entity offers a complete line of truck bodies, including refrigerated boxes, built for electric vehicles

GreenPower Motor Company recently launched a new truck body entity, GP Truck Body, that offers a complete line of truck bodies, including refrigerated boxes.

The California-based manufacturer revealed the new business during NTEA’s Work Truck Week.

“The launch of GP Truck Body signifies our commitment to customer satisfaction, consolidating our services into a seamless one-stop shop experience for buying and manufacturing,” Brendan Riley, GreenPower president, said in a news release. “By combining our business units under the GreenPower brand, we continue to provide unmatched expertise as an EV manufacturing company that possesses the level of know-how required for building truck bodies tailored specifically for electric vehicles.

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“Our goal is to be the trusted partner our customers rely on to meet all their business requirements. With GP Truck Body now part of the GreenPower business unit, we can achieve this goal while strengthening our market influence.”

The new business also offers dry freight bodies, aluminum stakebeds, steel and aluminum flatbeds, and service bodies. GreenPower specializes in producing and distributing purpose-built, all-electric, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles for the cargo and delivery markets, the company said. With the launch of GP Truck Body, GreenPower now covers “every stage of the fleet experience.”

“Dealing with a single manufacturing entity will increase the ease of doing business and ultimately the overall ownership experience,” said Claus Tritt, GreenPower vice president of medium-duty and commercial vehicle sales. “The customer has one place to go for its ordering, delivery and service and warranty needs.”

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Kevin Jones | Editor

Kevin has served as editor-in-chief of Trailer/Body Builders magazine since 2017—just the third editor in the magazine’s 60 years. He is also editorial director for Endeavor Business Media’s Commercial Vehicle group, which includes FleetOwner, Bulk Transporter, Refrigerated Transporter, American Trucker, and Fleet Maintenance magazines and websites.

Working from Beaufort, S.C., Kevin has covered trucking and manufacturing for nearly 20 years. His writing and commentary about the trucking industry and, previously, business and government, has been recognized with numerous state, regional, and national journalism awards.