NEWS
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19 Jan 2021
Scania’s commitment to battery electric vehicles
Scania’s aim is to be the leader in the shift towards a sustainable transport system. Battery electric vehicles will be the main tool to drive this shift and to enable decarbonised transport solutions with better transport economy to customers. -
14 Jan 2021
Scania strengthens partnership with leading British transport operators
Scania Great Britain has won a major order for a minimum of 2,250 trucks from Consortium Purchasing, an operation led by William Stobart, Executive Chairman of GreenWhiteStar Acquisitions, which owns Eddie Stobart, The Pallet Network, iForce etc., and Allan Jenkinson, owner of A. W. Jenkinson Forest Products. To be supplied over the coming two years, the vehicles represent Scania's largest ever European order for civilian trucks. The vehicles will remain in service for up to three years, depending on the operation, and have all been supplied with full repair and maintenance contracts. -
13 Jan 2021
“Scania trucks really perform in terms of safety, efficiency and reliability”
Over the past four years, Australian Sydney-based container solutions company Swift Transport has purchased around 50 new Scania trucks, with the most recent being a fleet of 17 G 450, G 500 and G 540. -
04 Jan 2021
Scania trucks safely moving gas on Spanish islands
The transport company Trans Dóniz recently landed four new Scania P 450 on the Spanish island of Tenerife, optimised for transporting butane gas canisters in a challenging topography. -
22 Dec 2020
Liège Airport expands Scania fleet to meet increasing air cargo volume
While most airports around the world are suffering, Belgian Liège Airport is thriving with increasing air freight shipments. As Europe’s seventh largest cargo airport, it handles 2,500 tonnes of freight from 140 flights every day. -
21 Dec 2020
Scania’s electric solutions – simplicity in a complex transition
In the future, every transport can be electric. And for a more sustainable world, most must. But replacing a diesel truck with an electrified is more than simply exchanging an old vehicle for a new. -
16 Dec 2020
Dairy giant switches to biogas
Arla Foods, the dairy cooperative in seven European countries, has the aim to reduce its carbon emissions by 30 percent by 2030 towards a neutral climate impact by 2050. In Finland, Arla’s second largest climate impact is transports. With quote & fact box and image gallery -
14 Dec 2020
Scania’s European cab production fully fossil-free
Scania’s cab production plant in Oskarshamn, Sweden, enters 2021 as fully fossil free. It will thereby be the first of its major production plants around the world to successfully phase out carbon emitting production elements. -
11 Dec 2020
New driver area provides outstanding workplace
The new-generation Scania buses and coaches feature completely redesigned driver areas with improved ergonomics, safety, comfort, and driveability. -
10 Dec 2020
City Door meets and exceeds safety standards
Designing the new L-cab with the City Door has been a demanding challenge for Scania’s engineers. How do you ensure safety when a crucial part of the cab body structure that has already been verified through simulation and physical crash testing is to be replaced? -
09 Dec 2020
Scania Citywide tested in freezing temperatures to ensure passenger comfort
City buses must be equally comfortable for passengers in biting cold and in scorching heat. Scania has therefore subjected its new generation Scania Citywide buses to some of the most adverse climate conditions on earth. -
08 Dec 2020
Scania’s new generation buses tested for reliable city operations
Before introduced to customers, Scania’s new generation city buses undergo rigorous testing of the typical challenges that they will face in everyday operations. Buses are loaded with weights to simulate maximum passenger capacity and subsequently subjected to obstacles that are commonplace. -
07 Dec 2020
Scania’s new powertrain improves fuel consumption in city buses
For bus operators, fuel is one of the main costs. This makes it essential to choose the right bus for each operation. Scania’s new bus generation saves fuel in several ways, as the weight of both chassis and body are significantly lower than before. The new engines are considerably more efficient, and the start-stop function adds further to the fuel savings. -
03 Dec 2020
Scania introduces Electric Active Steering and new driver assistance functions
Scania’s new Electric Active Steering (EAS) gives the driver better control over the vehicle’s position when manoeuvring in narrow spaces, meanwhile increasing stability at high speeds. It also enables several new driver assistance functions that add comfort during long drives, such as assisting the driver with keeping the vehicle centred in lane. -
02 Dec 2020
Swedish haulier Wobbes utilises the full power of the V8
When emotion meets logic, reads Scania’s V8 slogan. That is unquestionably true at Swedish haulier Wobbes, which operates a Scania 650 S equipped with a wood chipper. In the woods and forests of western Sweden, Wobbes blood red Scania trucks efficiently gulp heaps of twigs and branches before spraying chips into the tipper unit and trailer.
