ElectraMeccanica awarded assembly contract for Volcon Stag UTV at Arizona facility

Volcon and ElectraMeccanica Vehicles Corp. have announced that ElectraMeccanica has been selected for the final assembly of Volcon’s electric UTV, the Stag. The contract expands the previously announced assembly work that ElectraMeccanica will do for the Volcon Grunt EVO and Runt LT electric motorcycles.

“We continue to make progress in scaling our vertically integrated supply chain in partnership with GLV Mexico, with frames, panels, suspension components, paint and cure lines ramping as we speak,” says Jordan Davis, Volcon CEO. “By adding stateside assembly to our vertically integrated supply chain, we accomplish both our promise to keep manufacturing in North America while focusing on profitability and supply-chain resilience.”

The partnership provides ElectraMeccanica with additional EV manufacturing brands to assemble in its Mesa, Arizona, facility while assisting Volcon with their reshoring efforts for the Americas.

“The EV market continues to expand and we’re excited that our Mesa facility is playing an immediate part in that growth,” says Susan E. Docherty, ElectraMeccanica CEO. “We’re also extremely pleased to build on our existing relationship with Volcon and GLV by leveraging our teams’ expertise to bring new types of electric vehicles to eager customers, while we also work to develop our own next-generation EV.”

With more than half of Volcon’s product line being assembled in the United States, the company states, it “hopes to show its dedication to make best-in-class products, without handing off significant costs to the consumer.”

“Complex global supply chains, as we know them, existed long before Volcon was established,” says Davis. “However, instead of subscribing to the trickle down of common transnational commerce practices, we feel we have an opportunity to show what a ‘trickle up’ model could look like by collaborating with businesses in our own backyard for components that are often sourced overseas. While not perfected, we feel with opportunities like this, we get closer to creating a version where maximum profits are not at the expense of American jobs and maintaining a circular flow of dollars in our own communities.”