Having established its reputation as a world-leader transforming luxury classics such as Range Rovers 4X4s, Bentleys and Rolls-Royce limousines and Jaguar sports cars to run as zero-emissions – at a cost of between £240,000 and £1/2million – the arrival of David Beckham among a group of new investors aims to kick start the firm’s significant expansion into converting larger commercial vehicles and HGVs. That includes refuse trucks and even fire engines- on a much bigger scale using its own proprietary electric powertrain.
This could see the firm – which says it is ‘committed to Britain’ – increasing its workforce from 60 to 500 highly skilled jobs by 2024, it says. The first prototype is aptly ‘a recycled refuse truck’.
Founded in 2018 by entrepreneur David Lorenz and triple F1 World Championship winning technical director Jon Hilton, Lunaz recycles, restores, re-engineers and electrifies existing and classic vehicles to clean-air powertrains – known as ‘upcycling’ because it aims to both improve them and prolong their lifespan as environmentally-friendly vehicles.