Renault Group received all regulatory approvals to acquire Volvo Group’s 45% and CMA CGM’s 10% stakes in Flexis, taking 100% of the electric light-commercial venture. Production of the Trafic Van E-Tech Electric — built on a proprietary 800 V skateboard platform with software-defined-vehicle architecture — starts as planned at the Sandouville plant in late 2026, with Renault Trucks marketing the vehicle from 2027 alongside Renault’s own channels.

Why heavy-truck readers should track a van deal: the Flexis skateboard is Renault’s template for software-defined commercial vehicles, and the electric last-mile segment is where fleet electrification volume actually lives (ICCT: medium trucks and vans hit 21.1% zero-emission share in H1 2026 — nearly 10× the heavy-tractor rate). The same scope-3 shippers pushing heavy-truck electrification are electrifying vans first; a truck maker that owns both layers of a customer’s decarbonisation sells the whole transition.

For Volvo Group watchers: selling the stake while keeping sales rights (Renault Trucks distributes from 2027) is a clean exit that keeps the product in its lineup — group logic over product logic, and a hint at where Light-vehicle capex is being reallocated (the heavy electric and autonomous programmes).