Volcon Picks ElectraMeccanica to Build Stag Electric Side-By-Side

Volcon continues to put the pieces together to start manufacturing the Stag battery-electric UTV. The next step sees Texas-based Volcon and its manufacturing partner, Michigan-based GLV Ventures, deepening ties with Canadian firm ElectraMeccanica. Volcon and GLV recently chose the latter firm to build the new Grunto EVO and Runt TL fat-tired electric motorcycles at ElectraMeccanica’s new US headquarters in Mesa, Arizona. Now they’ve chosen the Arizona branch to assemble the Stag as well.

ElectraMeccanica opened its US HQ at the end of last year; the 235,000-square-foot facility includes about 180,000 feet of factory space to assemble light-duty vehicles. The company is gearing up to build its own vehicle, a single-seat electric three-wheeler called the Solo. That’s expected to eat up about 20,000 units of the factory’s 60,000-unit annual capacity. The remainder is reserved for the kind of contract manufacturing exemplified by the Volcon agreements.

Volcon might need it all. The Austin company says it has more than $116 million in Stag preorder sales to feed to its 151 dealers in the US, plus its six distributors in the Caribbean and South America. Deliveries are slated to begin in June, but the state of the industrial supply chain remains fickle enough to make next week a long way away, never mind two months.

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The connection to ElectraMeccanica might have been helped by the fact that the Stag uses General Motors’ Ultium platform—the same EV internals powering vehicles as different as the GMC Hummer EV and the coming Cadillac Celestiq, a luxury sedan expected to cost about $300,000 when it hits the market next year. ElectraMeccanica CEO Susan Docherty, whose résumé includes 25 years at General Motors, took up the head position in December 2022.

The goal for all companies involved is to get manufacturing back to the US. The tie-up would streamline manufacturing for Volcon, since part of its supply chain is already based south of the border through GLV Mexico.

Volcon CEO Jordan Davis said the Stag’s “frames, panels, suspension components, paint, and cure lines [are] ramping as we speak” in Mexico. He added that “by collaborating with businesses in our own backyard for components that are often sourced overseas…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.”

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