Workhorse Group, a North American OEM and provider of all-electric trucks, shuttles, and buses, announced that its 1,100-plus electric vehicles deployed to customers have surpassed a combined 20 million miles of in-service travel. 

The company said this deep real-world experience enables Workhorse to be a true partner in fleet electrification for its customers today and, at the same time, drives the design and engineering of the company’s 7th-generation platform and expanded vehicle lineup.

“Twenty million miles is a significant threshold which reflects not only the quality and performance of our vehicles, but the trust that our many repeat customers have placed in Workhorse. This achievement reinforces the view that medium-duty is the sweet spot for electrification,” said Scott Griffith, CEO of Workhorse. “Every day our vehicles safely and reliably transport the goods, packages, and people that are the lifeblood of our economy, all with zero tailpipe emissions and pollution, helping to make life better for everyone along the route.”

Impact on Total Cost of Ownership

With more than a decade of producing, deploying, and supporting electric vehicles, Workhorse has developed a significant body of data, knowledge, and expertise about not just trucks, but also fleet electrification and fleet management, including:

Workhorse said its vehicles delivering meaningful returns in total cost of ownership by:

• Maintaining the high vehicle uptime and deployment success

• Ergonomic vehicle design and engineering, considering the entire truck, not just the powertrain

• Battery chemistry and software design and configuration, including optimization for fleet applications

• Vehicle software, hardware, and powertrain expertise and best practices

• Battery and range optimization through smart route planning

• Cost-effective and efficient depot-based charging infrastructure

• Customer service responsiveness & in-house fleet technician training

• Operator training and deployment best practices

• Cold-weather operations best practices

• Maintenance best practices

Customer Feedback & Insights

In addition to insights gained from customer feedback, Workhorse also derives deep operational insights and real-world verifications of last-mile delivery trucks through its ownership and operation of Stables by Workhorse, an Independent Service Provider for FedEx Ground. This business operates a mixed fleet of electric and internal combustion engine step vans year-round in Ohio.

7^th Generation Platform

All of these experiences and learnings are informing the current design and engineering of Workhorse’s 7th Generation (Gen 7) platform, a truly software-defined vehicle whose modular/building-block approach features a common set of scalable, interchangeable sub-systems. This system will enable Workhorse to rapidly create new vehicle configurations without expanding engineering complexity. 

By commonizing modular subsystems and standardizing parts across classes 4-6, Workhorse believes it is continuing to extend its total cost of ownership advantage over gas- and diesel-powered trucks and progressing toward reducing unit costs to ultimately close the purchase price gap with internal combustion trucks.

The flexible Gen 7 platform is being designed to help fleets meet today’s operational needs, while enabling vehicles to easily adopt future technological advancements in safety, autonomy, and other software-driven performance upgrades as they become available in the marketplace.

“Unlike any other electric truck OEM, Workhorse is also its own customer, running our W56 through its paces in actual operations in our Stables subsidiary, and benchmarking performance and cost against internal combustion counterparts,” Griffith said. “As we design and engineer our next generation, our plan is to move the industry from an era of unconnected, static hardware assets to always-on, smart nodes in an intelligent network.”

Dealer Network & 3^rd Party Sales

Workhorse sells its vehicles through a national network of trusted dealers and 3rd party service providers, with comprehensive post-sale support bolstered by trained Workhorse technicians located regionally. 

Today, 10 of the largest medium-duty truck fleets in North America have deployed Workhorse vehicles, including Purolator, Vestis (formerly Aramark Uniform Services), Cintas, several FedEx independent service providers, and other leading brands.

Workhorse’s “Better Trucks. Better World” vision is being advanced by the successful W56 and EPIC4 vehicles currently in production at the company's commercial-scale manufacturing facility in Union City, Indiana. Vehicles produced here include step vans, school buses, shuttles, box trucks, stake beds, and refrigerated trucks.

“In a little more than a year, we’ve sold and delivered more than 50 Workhorse trucks, and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Jerry Smith, president at California-based Kingsburg Truck Center. "Our customers report the Workhorse trucks consistently meet their needs for performance, durability, and uptime, while offering significant savings on fuel and maintenance. We get frequent feedback that indicates 2026 will be a solid year for repeat orders.”

Reducing CO2 Emissions

Since inception, the electric vehicles provided by Workhorse1 have avoided the use of more than 2.3 million gallons of petroleum-based fuel (equivalent to the use of approximately 5,700 cars in a year) and reducing CO2 emissions by more than 45 million pounds (the equivalent of taking approximately 4,500 cars off the road for a year).