NEW YORK — On a sultry Thursday morning in the South Bronx, a stream of local politicians walked to an outdoor podium framed by a Volvo Class 8 VNR Electric truck that soon will silently haul trailers of cold beer to Manhattan with no trail of tailpipe emissions.
They celebrated the first of five VNR Electrics that Manhattan Beer Distributors purchased with help from $975,000 Volkswagen AG paid to settle a diesel emissions cheating scandal. In a part of New York where poor air quality afflicts...