Bollinger Motors halts B1 and B2 development

USA EV start-up Bollinger Motors has announced it has stopped the ongoing development of its B1 and B2 SUV and pickup, to focus on developing its EV commercial-vehicle platforms.

“We started Bollinger Motors in 2015 with a dream and a desire to make the best trucks possible,” said Robert Bollinger, CEO of Bollinger Motors.

“We’ve put countless hours of hard work and passion in to making something that makes us proud. However, today we’re postponing the consumer trucks’ development and shifting our focus to commercial trucks and fleets.”

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Of all the EV companies that have popped up over the past decade, the B1 and B2 promised to be the most exciting off-road vehicles, with their bespoke in-house-engineered portal axles, height-adjustable suspension and proper off-road capability.

The prototypes have been undergoing testing in a range of conditions in the USA over the past five years and certainly look capable and super practical.

We crawled over the B1 prototype at the SEMA Show a few years ago and were suitably impressed with the engineering, innovation and design of the vehicle, and were very much looking forward to seeing the vehicles come to market.

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Bollinger Motors will continue to develop and manufacture all-electric platforms and chassis cabs for commercial vehicles under Classes 3 to 6 trucks. These EV platforms are designed to slip under truck and bus bodies to suit a wide range of applications.

Hopefully, the success of the commercial truck platforms will enable Bollinger to renew development of the B1 and B2 at some time in the future.