“Covid is just another accelerator of an already existing trend. “They were already moving in that direction,” he pointed out. “Fluid Truck has an increasingly electrified delivery fleet across the U.S so this is another step in enabling IKEA Retail to provide last mile delivery services to our customers, continue to improve on our customer promise, while also reducing our environmental footprint.”Įberhard agrees the Covid-19 pandemic has added increased importance to the fleet management services companies like his provide as the number of shipments and deliveries has increased due to health-related restrictions. ”We are delighted with this investment in Fluid Truck as this partnership is closely aligned with our zero emission customer delivery ambitions,” said Krister Mattsson, Managing Director of Ingka Investments in a statement. They’ve demonstrated their ability to successfully scale, and we’re thrilled to partner with the team as they grow and provide individuals and businesses with 24/7 mobile access to a wide array of trucks and vans.”įluid Truck’s addition of those 600 Lightning Electric Vehicles was a plus for participating investor, Ingka Investments. Fluid Truck’s easy-to-use app allows business owners to flexibly and affordably build their fleet, manage employee scheduling on-the-go. We’ve grown over 100x in the last two years from a revenue standpoint.”Īndreas Hildebrand, Partner at lead investor Bison Capital, and Fluid Truck board member explained his company’s confidence in Fluid Truck declaring in a statement, “Easy and affordable mobility is critical for the success of small and medium-sized businesses, yet the prehistoric tools and models of traditional incumbents often make vehicle rental cumbersome. “We’ve been growing at a pretty dramatic rate. “We’ve really found something that’s pretty compelling to businesses where they can take this approach of, really, more of fleet as a service versus them buying, maintaining, managing vehicles,” Eberhard said. James Eberhard, founder and CEO of peer-to-peer truck sharing platform company Fluid Truck Michael Teak Photography 2019
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