A self-drive electrical delivery truck, that would air UK streets next year, has been disclosed at the Wired 2016 conference in London.
The vehicle's stripped-back style and light-weight materials mean it are often assembled by one person in four hours, the firm behind it claims.
The vehicles are "autonomous-ready", for once car rental legislation is in situ, the firm same.
The government desires to envision car rental cars on the roads by 2020.
"We notice trucks these days completely unacceptable. Loud, polluting and unfriendly," same Denis Sverdlov, chief govt of Charge, the technology firm behind the truck.
"We square measure creating trucks the manner they ought to be - reasonable, elegant, quiet, clean and safe."
He added: "We square measure removing all the barriers to entry for electrical vehicles by evaluation them in line with standard trucks, giving each fleet manager, tradesperson or company, in spite of however huge or tiny, the chance to vary the manner they transport merchandise and create our cities and cities higher places to measure in."
Charge plans to develop trucks in an exceedingly vary of sizes from three.5 to twenty six tonnes and is in talks with the main truck fleet companies.
DHL has antecedently same of the firm: "We see vast potential within the contribution they will create to advancing technology for industrial usages and also the manner we have a tendency to conceive of the longer term of supplying."
The vehicles are designed victimisation ultra-lightweight composite materials that considerably cut back the burden of the vehicle, it said.
The car rental software package has been developed in-house and is prepared to be uploaded to the trucks "at the bit of a button" whenever the govt. permits autonomous vehicles on UK roads, the firm same.
The UK government is keen to steer the manner on the event of driverless automobile technology and is presently consulting on changes to insurance rules and driving rules, with a read to permit car rental cars on the roads by 2020.
Charge plans to open a works in Oxfordshire next year with a team of ten operating over 2 shifts each day to assemble ten,000 trucks within the 1st year.
The firm is an officer partner of Formula E - the electrical racing competition - with its trucks being employed for the drive parade and for supplying on and off the track.
Mr Sverdlov conjointly heads Roborace that creates AI-powered sport cars.
Most of {the huge|the large|the massive} automobile makers square measure creating big strides in developing electrical vehicles - Volkswagen, as an example, is about to launch thirty all-electric models to reposition itself as a frontrunner in inexperienced transport following the supposed "dieselgate" scandal.
Driverless cars are changing into a reality. The UK's Transport Systems Catapult test-drove associate degree autonomous vehicle on a public street in John Milton economic expert this summer, with more trials planned for London before long.
In October, electrical auto manufacturer Tesla proclaimed that every one the cars it currently builds can have the hardware put in to drive on their own.
Swedish auto manufacturer Volvo plans to run driverless-car trials on public roads around London from 2017.
