Scania is showcasing its versatile range of electrified and biofuel heavy trucks, including a brand-new battery electric tractor, at this week’s big IAA Transportation show in Hanover, Germany.
Scania’s electric vehicle range now encompasses vehicles for nearly all applications, also featuring heavy-duty mining and timber trucks.
“Customers can now benefit from greener options without adversely affecting normal operations and thereby help set the stage for a fossil-free future of heavy transport,” said Scania president and CEO Christian Levin.
Scania said it now stands ready to deliver electric trucks with the greatest loading capacity, the fastest charging, and the and the best driving experience on the market.
Thanks to Scania’s modular approach it offers a great variety of electric machines and options regarding battery packs, chassis, power take-off solutions, cab variants and axle configurations.
“Electrified transport depends on a whole ecosystem,” Levin added.
“To be the best partner to our customers we must offer more than vehicles. Additionally, our support includes charging infrastructure, battery performance monitoring, dynamic route planning, financing, and many other services.
“Over the past two years, we’ve worked hard to get all of that in place.”
In parallel, Scania has pioneered biofuel trucks. On display at IAA, will be the Scania Super 460 R, the latest winner of the German Green Truck Award.
In biogas, Scania’s new 13-litre truck provides customers with a choice of compressed and liquified biogas, the latter with ranges up to 1800km.
No Scania appearance would be complete without its legendary V8 which is joined on the stand by the Scania R 660, built for the toughest conditions.
By 2030, 50 percent of the total vehicle sales volume is expected to be electrified, Scania said.
“In our electrification journey, we are leaving city limits behind us and heading onto intercity motorways,” Levin said.
“We have recently delivered an electrified timber truck to a customer in northern Sweden. And that is a very real token of the fact that we now can electrify all heavy transport applications.”
To enable these long-distance motorway transports, Scania is preparing for megawatt charging to charge trucks for 45 minutes for 4.5 hours of travel.
“We’ve identified four ‘hotspots’ – batteries, steel, aluminium and cast iron – which together account for more than 80 per cent of carbon emission emanating from the supply chain,” Levin said.
“By 2030 we will cut emissions from these hotspots by 60-85 per cent.”