Bollinger B2 Chass-E Cab Getting Rear-Wheel Drive And Dually Variants

Bollinger Motors has announced plans to offer rear-wheel drive and dually variants of their B2 Chass-E Cab and Chass-E.

Designed to appeal to commercial fleets, the new variants are significantly cheaper than their all-wheel drive counterparts.

In particular, the B2 Chass-E Cab starts at $70,000 with rear-wheel drive. Dually variants are rear-wheel drive only and add $2,500 to the sticker price. That’s pretty reasonable, especially when you consider the all-wheel drive model starts at $100,000.

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The Chass-E, on the other hand, eschews a body and this allows customers to build a purpose-built vehicle around the electric platform. The rear-wheel drive variant starts at $55,000 while the dually version goes for $57,500. With all-wheel drive, the price climbs to $80,000.

The Chass-Es will have a 140 kWh battery pack and a range in excess of 200 miles (322 km). They’ll also be pretty hardcore as they boast a hydro-pneumatic suspension, 15 inches (381 mm) of ground clearance and a 5,000 lbs (2,268 kg) payload capacity.

Production is slated to begin next year and CEO Robert Bollinger said “There’s nothing on the market, or in development, like our all-electric Class 3 work trucks.” He went on to say the new variants will enable them to offer a “whole range of options to commercial fleets looking to electrify,” while adding “our trucks kick ass and now they kick ass three ways!”

In other news, Bollinger revealed they’re looking to electrify existing vehicles with “suspended battery packs” that have capacities of 67 and 134 kWh. They’d be mounted to the frames of higher class trucks (Class 4+) and be joined by a suspended HV component pack as well as an electric rear axle. This is a neat idea as it would enable existing fleets to go electric.