Volvo Launches 3 New Massive Electric Truck Models for Heavy Duty Uses, Representing 2/3 of Company’s Sales

Think about a truck that solely emits water vapor, produces its personal electrical energy onboard and has a spread of as much as 600 miles.

Volvo have made it doable with gasoline cells powered by hydrogen, and through this summer time they began to check a brand new line of vans utilizing this know-how.

Volvo Vehicles is starting collection manufacturing of the electrical variations of the corporate’s most necessary product vary, its heavy-duty vans: Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX. These vans can function at a complete weight of 44 tons and the three fashions symbolize round two-thirds of the corporate’s gross sales.

“We have now been creating this know-how for some years now, and it feels nice to see the primary vans efficiently operating on the check observe,” said Roger Alm, President of Volvo Vehicles division.

“The mixture of battery electrical and gasoline cell electrical will allow our clients to fully get rid of CO2 exhaust emissions from their vans, irrespective of transport assignments. This can be a milestone and proves that we’re main the transformation of the trade.”

The gasoline cell electrical vans could have an operational vary similar to many diesel vans—as much as 600 miles (1,000 km)—and a refueling time of lower than quarter-hour. The overall weight may be round 65 tons and even larger, and the 2 gasoline cells have the capability to generate 300 kW of electrical energy onboard.

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Hydrogen gasoline cells are way more sensible for freight or high-tonnage transport for a number of causes. First, an everyday passenger sedan can be over-weighted by the addition of the gasoline cell equipment, so any theoretical 4-door mannequin must be a lot greater and heavier.

Secondly, pure hydrogen just isn’t one thing most residents can simply get their palms on, and it requires way more time to refuel than regular gasoline or diesel.

For freight automobiles or trains that run on schedules and cease at designated amenities, all three of those issues are simply surmounted.

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Volvo Vehicles’ electrical portfolio could cover around 45% of all items transported in Europe as we speak, principally as a result of European trucking routes are a lot smaller than within the U.S., (averaging 160 miles, or 300 km), so the necessity to arrive at a particular refueling station doesn’t turn out to be a problem.

“We have now bought round 1,000 models of our heavy electrical vans and greater than 2,600 of our electrical vans in complete. We anticipate volumes to extend considerably within the subsequent few years. By 2030, not less than 50 % of the vans we promote globally ought to be electrical,” says Alm.

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