Scania News 2021

The Scania-powered Australian ‘Force of Nature’ crayfish boat commissioned by loyal Scania marine engine customer, Geraldton-based Dave Perham, is happy with the boat’s quality, innovation, reliability, utility, economy, sustainability and style.

AI Sweden is the Swedish National Center for Applied Artificial Intelligence. Scania is now joining this professional network of over 100 partners.

Swedish haulier Daniel Karlsson’s field test of a Scania Super powertrain makes him confident he’s found a truck that blends sustainability with money-saving fuel efficiency for the years ahead.

Scania is driving the transition to zero emission vehicles. We are series-producing fully electric vehicles and actively testing heavier duty electric trucks in customer operations. This transformation is being enabled by rapid improvements in battery technology, and electric trucks will soon have the range necessary for widespread use in long-haul applications.

The three leading European commercial vehicle manufacturers TRATON GROUP with its brands Scania and MAN, Daimler Truck, and Volvo Group have signed a binding agreement to install and operate a high-performance public charging network for battery electric, heavy-duty long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe. In July, the companies announced the intention to do so through a non-binding agreement.

Certificates for biomethane are expected to speed the shift to sustainable transport. Belgian haulier Van de Poel has had positive experience using the system.

It is silent, soft and smooth. Also, it is good for both the urban environment and the fuel economy. Holmlunds Åkeri has field tested a Scania P 250 PHEV with the new hybrid powertrain.

German premium flooring company Bona has just taken delivery of the country’s first Scania battery-electric truck.

Scania is ready for the transition to zero emission vehicles. We have a plan, an electrification roadmap that will guide us and ensure we have a new electric product available annually. We already have fully electric trucks and buses available that can manage up to 250 km per charge and we can expect up to 500 km range in 4-5 years from now.

The innovative, emission-free Scania Battery-Electric Vehicle operates from the Lidl logistics centre in Arcole near Verona, and is being used to supply the company’s supermarkets in the north-east of Italy.

Among apartment houses and shops in Östersund, Sweden, yellow Scania buses silently circulate the streets. At first glance, it is the colourful bus that catches attention. But as it passes by, it’s the clean air and the lack of engine noise that is most notable. Why? They are electric.

The longest and heaviest truck combination for regular delivery on European roads today is 34 meters long, with a total gross-weight (TGW) of 98 tons. This 12-axle combination sports a rigid Scania R 770, 8x4, and side-ways tipper bodies from OP Höglunds, moving wood chips from a train terminal, 20 km via the E20 highway to a power plant in Södertälje, Sweden.

Among the many impressive features of Scania’s new bus generation, the Advanced Driver Assistance System stands out -- as a tool for enabling safe, reassuring and cost-effective bus and coach transport.

For too long, bus and coach companies have depended on periodic maintenance that doesn’t always come at the right time or reflect the actual status of the vehicle. But Scania Flexible Maintenance for Buses and Coaches introduces condition-based maintenance when it’s needed, to maximise your uptime.

With up to 5% less fuel consumption, coach operators should expect the most energy-efficient Scania coaches yet, which will also meet or even surpass emission targets.

Flexible financing that suits any customer’s business plan, budget and situation is key for Scania. This extends to good times as well as bad, something that became evident for many bus and coach operators in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.ry

Deal to provide 304 buses will help improve public transportation and sustainable mobility in West African country’s capital city, as part of the Greater Ouagadougou Urban Mobility Project.

The Norwegian postal service is currently testing its new, all-electric distribution truck from Scania on the route between Oslo and Tromsø, a section of 1,600 km.

If you have been given the possibility to develop yourself and been challenged and supported by great leaders throughout your career, the chance is you end up as one of those inspiring people. This happened to Lars Gustafsson, Head of Service Portfolio and Delivery at Scania’s Sales & Marketing.

Scania recently delivered a plug-in-hybrid truck (PHEV) to HAVI. The truck will run HAVI’s regular operations in Stockholm and its suburbs, but also be a part of trials in a couple of research projects. This means it will operate most hours, both night and day.

Scania is to participate in a major feasibility study into the operation of long haul electrified trucks utilising dynamic charging provided by overhead wires on electric roads.

Early in life, Laura Dal Col decided she wanted to do something meaningful for society and the environment. As a manager at the Scania Autonomous Transport Research department, she truly makes a difference in the world.

Sweden’s first hydrogen-powered refuse truck has recently started work on the streets of the country’s second city, Gothenburg. The business of garbage collection has just become cleaner.

After ten years at the wheel of distribution trucks in Poland and Sweden, Maciek Meszek has mastered the challenges of city driving. But now he’s also helping to meet one of the city's - and the world's - future challenges, driving a new Scania P 280 that’s powered by compressed biogas.

The Spirit of Matushka, a brand-new, custom-built 87-foot high-speed catamaran, can comfortably bring 150 nature loving tourist out to sea at 28 knots cruising speed, and with excellent view of Alaskan glaciers and maritime wildlife. With four Scania V8s it is the fastest and yet the most fuel efficient vessel in Major Marine Tours’ fleet.

The CEO Alliance with 12 business leaders recently met in Paris to discuss ways to further support the EU Green Deal. The group believes that fighting climate change will require a collective effort by all EU member states and collaboration between the public sector and industry. A strong carbon pricing signal on the European level is regarded as a key to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 and cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 55 percent of 1990 levels by 2030.

Every day, the Absolut Company sends out around 600,000 bottles of its world-famous Absolut Vodka from its factory in southern Sweden to customers all over the globe. Now, its transports to the nearby harbour will be made by Scania P 320 electric-hybrid trucks, slashing emissions and noise in the vodka distiller’s little hometown.

The leading European commercial vehicle manufacturers have signed a non-binding agreement to install and operate a public charging network for battery electric, heavy-duty, long-haul trucks and coaches across Europe.

Scania will deliver six depot charged electric buses to Bergkvarabuss for the operator’s new mission to drive in the area of Strängnäs on behalf of Sörmlandstrafiken. Scania also delivers a complete charging infrastructure to optimise and follow-up on the service and charging of the buses.

In an effort to become a leader in sustainable IT, Scania will collaborate with Amazon Web Services (AWS) on a year-long project beginning in June 2021. The project aims to reduce its IT carbon footprint and build sustainability IT solutions.

Over 500,000 connected vehicles are rolling all over Scania’s 100 markets, continuously sharing data for analysis.

Axfood’s logistics company Dagab goes all-in for sustainability with its purchase of electric trucks from Scania.

Scania won a tender of the Municipal Transport Company of Madrid (EMT Madrid) and will deliver 170 Scania N 280 buses with 9-liter gas engines, bodied by Castrosua. These new vehicles will be delivered between 2021 and 2023 and adds to the 390 Scania buses already circulating the streets of the Spanish capital.

When Northvolt now completes another equity raise of 2.75 billion US dollars to deploy further battery cell capacity and enforce recycling, Scania is among the investors yet again.

In four consecutive years Scania has won the prestigious “Green Truck” award. Now, figures from the European Commission confirm that Scania is by far the best among the heavy vehicle manufacturers to reduce CO2 emissions.

Sir Richard Branson spoke at the live broadcast Sustainable Transport Forum in Stockholm, where representatives from government and business discussed at how to increase the scale and pace of change, and how partnership and collaboration can be the force the world needs.

Fifteen years into an extremely successful partnership, Scania and Chinese bus and coach builder Higer take another big step together. This week the new bus range Scania Fencer makes its world premiere in Great Britain.

With the purchase of 15 fully electric refuse trucks from Scania, Copenhagen residents can look forward to cleaner air and less noise.

She graduated from The Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, with a MSc in Electric Power Engineering. Scania approached her and her fellow students right from the start and invited them to the factory in Södertälje a few times over the years.

Johanna Blomqvist is working with coordinating efforts within electrification projects with other departments at R&D.

As a Development Engineer, Hiba Ben-Talha is part of a team at Scania’s R&D Software Simulation. The team is responsible for a software simulation platform, a virtual truck and bus, where designers and engineers can test new products before trying them out in real life.

Scania China is involved in a project for smart mobility in Hong Kong, using C-V2X technology that enables communication between a vehicle and any entity it may affect or be affected by, to conduct road tests.

Thailand has more women in leading positions than most countries. At Scania Siam, half of the managers are women, and two thirds of the executive board.

From the very first rental company vehicle to the brand new 770 S, German family business Thomas Buchner Int. Transporte has always relied on Scania.

Chilean company Viggo has more than 73 years of experience of land transport, and their history with Scania dates back more than two decades. They entrust Scania buses for safe transport of mining operators from haul trucks to their jobs in the mine pit.

Over the last two years Dutch hauling company Van Dijk invested in ten Scania G 410 liquid gas trucks. The aim is to abandon all fossil fuels in the entire fleet and safeguard a sustainable future business.

Since the beginning of 2021, Magnus MackAldener is responsible for Electrification Development at Scania Research & Development. MackAldener, with experience from two major development projects of significant meaning for Scania, now takes on yet a third.

Swedish transport group, LBC Frakt AB, wants to be in the forefront in the transformation into fossil free transports and invested in a plug-in hybrid distribution truck, a Scania L 320 for clean and smooth city deliveries. The tank is filled with HVO, an organic diesel treated with hydrogen, to bring down CO2 emissions up to 90 percent

New technologies demand another kind of competence. As the industry experiences a new era with autonomous vehicles, electrification and digitalisation, the need to extend knowledge in various fields emerges.

With electrification on the whole transport industry’s agenda, Scania is pushing change even further by a new, clear structure involving eMobility. This is a vital part of the company’s purpose to drive the shift to sustainable transport solutions. As Driving the Shift Manager at Scania, Fiora Cheng Gårdemyr contributes to Scania’s ambition to develop our eMobility business, starting with the European markets.

Scania has decided to invest in and enter into a partnership with the company H2 Green Steel (H2GS).

Zurich is a green city and its Office of Parks and Open Spaces, Grün Stadt Zürich, manages 40 percent of the entire city area, maintaining all public green spaces in the city.. These daily activities generate huge amounts of organic waste and Grün Stadt Zürich has therefore invested in a Scania G 410 gas truck fuelled with locally-produced biogas.

Jennie Cato has been appointed Head of Public Affairs at Scania. In Cato’s new role, she will develop and implement activities for decision-makers, society and influencers, all the while nurturing relationships and ensuring Scania’s position as a trusted partner in driving the sustainable transport agenda.

From the marina filled with luxury yachts to the surrounding hills lined with buildings, Monaco is a dense principality with narrow and winding roads. In this intense traffic one of Ecotrans’ Scania P 410 concrete mixers deftly manoeuvres.

Finnish haulier Transport Harri Mikkola’s new truck and trailer combination features the latest technology to minimise carbon emissions while ensuring reliable food deliveries. In addition to switching to a liquefied biogas powered Scania G 410. Transport Harri Mikkola has installed a hybrid temperature control system in the tractor unit.

Braving challenging terrain with Scania tipper trucks gives Singaporean Chuan Lim Construction a smoother ride ahead for business. This truck is one of Chuan Lim Construction’s 18 Scania P 410 tippers acquired over the past year.

To speed up the transition to fossil-free fuels in the transport sector, Scania joins forces with Volvo Group, Stena Line, and the Port of Gothenburg. The collaboration will ensure a reduction in carbon emissions by 70 per cent by 2030 linked to the largest port in Scandinavia.

The choice of fuel is often determined by the customer’s environmental engagement. For Swedish haulier Skänninge Godstransporter the choice was simple since its primary customer, Toyota Material Handling Manufacturing Sweden, has switched to biogas in its production.

The first German electric road test track on A5 motorway near Frankfurt will be extended by almost seven kilometres of catenary overhead lines, added to the existing five kilometres. Also, an additional seven trucks to drive on this road are to be delivered by Scania. Electrified Scania trucks are already driving in Lübeck and more trucks are to come once the third test track is finalised, adding up to 22 trucks in total.

Scania has entered into a research project with Canadian Westport Fuel Systems, in order to try a High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) fuel system using hydrogen to the latest Scania internal combustion engine (ICE).

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.

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.

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.

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.