First Australian SEA Electric truck rolls out

The first Australian-made SEA 300-85 electric truck has rolled off the production line in south-eastern Melbourne.

The truck – complete with the Australian developed and manufactured SEA Electric drive train – has been delivered to leading Western Australian mining company Mineral Resources.

Rated to 8.5-tonnes, the truck is specified with a 138kWh battery driving a 1,500Nm all-electric motor.

Unladen, the combination has a potential range of up to 300km.

Sea Electric Asia Pacific president Bill Gillespie said: “It is incredibly exciting to see the very first truck to roll off our production line.

“It is the culmination of years of effort by the entire SEA Electric team dating back to 2012.

“Australian manufacturing and ingenuity is alive and well, especially so in the development of products in the EV space, with SEA Electric’s innovations game-changing for the transport industry.”

Constructed from a Semi Knocked Down (SKD) kit, the truck is finished with the latest SEA Electric badging and branding, its own compliance plate and full factory warranty.

The model lends itself to a variety of final applications, including dry freight, temperature-controlled freight, as an elevated working platform or a tipper for municipal use in a range of trims, according to Gillespie.

Sea Electric offers options ranging from 4.5-tonne car licence vehicles through to 22.5-tonne three-axle rigids.

Gillespie said: “The response from the transport industry since the launch of our local volume production has been very heartening, and we are looking forward to passing many more milestones in the coming months.”

MRL’s mining services chief executive Mike Grey said the Company was committed to reducing its carbon footprint and was actively working towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Grey said: “We’ve developed a transition plan to a low-carbon future and that includes reducing our reliance on diesel.

“Our SEA Electric truck is just one of the ways we’re driving towards net zero.”

Since 2017, SEA Electric has been performing driveline swaps on existing internal combustion engine powered trucks.

SEA Electric is currently replicating the production techniques developed locally in Australia for overseas markets, including North America where it recently received its largest-ever order for 1.150 trucks.

Picture: Sea Electric

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