Where Edison Started

Edison Motors

Built by Truckers for Truckers

Edison Motors was founded by Chace Barber and Eric Little who entered their business partnership in 2016 after graduating university and starting a trucking company with a 1969 Kenworth 5 axle Logging Truck (Old Blue). They began hauling logs in Merritt, BC. moved to hauling mining equipment into the Yukon and then expanded to moving drilling rigs in Alberta before returning back to BC Logging.

The business grew, more trucks were added and due to the frustration in serviceability of newer trucks the partners started rebuilding older trucks instead. The business grew and expanded to hauling and installing power generation systems. In 2019 the guys started designing and installing off-grid solar hybrid power systems. After their first successful project in northern BC, Eric and Chace started to design a diesel-electric semi truck using the same principles of a high voltage off-grid solar project.

After reserving a Tesla semi in 2017 and not receiving the truck for 4 years, in 2021, the team decided to start building their own electric truck. This would be designed as a more robust truck, tailored to logging and heavy vocational industries their trucking company operated in.

Our truck are the result of a trucking company who remanufactured classic logging trucks with their engineering expertise of off-grid hybrid power systems. It is the aim of the Edison Team to build a reliable, easy to service truck with the efficiency & power of an electric vehicle.