B-ON, the electric commercial vehicle brand, has ended its partnership with IM Group ahead of launching its new generation of Pelkan electric vans early next year.
The new German brand had an agreement in place with IM Group from April 2023 to distribute its StreetScooter vans in the UK and Nortern Ireland.
However, the StreetScooter product line has now been separated from the larger B-ON business and a spokesperson confirmed to AM that in light of that separation, the new brand is “exploring other routes to partnership” away from IM Group.
B-ON no longer has any relationship to the StreetScooter product after Professor Günther Schuh – the inventor of the StreetScooter – took over the rights to the prodcut at the beginning of 2024.
B-ON has been preparing to expand at a much larger scale in the UK with the recent appointment of former Nissan LCV veteran Nicolas Tschann as its chief commercial officer.
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