LOTS Group and VELUX collaborate to optimise electric transport flows with AI
5 JUNE 2026
The partnership uses data analysis and modelling to assess how electric transport can be deployed across VELUX’s European transport network. The goal is to develop a scalable approach for accelerating the transition to electric freight transport.
In further evidence that Scania’s work to electrify the heavy transport system is not just confined to selling electric trucks, the company’s logistics arm LOTS Group is working with Danish roof window manufacturer VELUX to explore how electrification strategies can be integrated into the company’s future transport operations.
The pilot phase of this bold new partnership began in early 2026, focusing on assessing the operational and financial feasibility of deploying battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in selected transport flows. The work has combined real-world route analysis, charging considerations, and cost modelling to test viability under practical conditions. The result is a 1,250 km round-trip route – operating today – that serves as a concrete example of how long-haul electric freight transport can be structured and operated.
Using AI to identify viable electric transport routes
Using the AI-based logistics platform Pathfinder, LOTS Group has analysed VELUX’s routes, charging infrastructure, shipment data and operational constraints.
The collaboration uses route analysis, charging data and operational modelling to assess where electric trucks can be deployed at scale.
This innovative AI-based approach allows LOTS and VELUX to assess how electric trucks can be integrated into existing logistics flows while maintaining operational reliability and cost efficiency, the key underlying business concerns for VELUX as it considers how to decarbonise its transport network.
Through scenario modelling and data analysis, the two partners can assess the effectiveness and fit of different types of electrification strategies, reduce the risks stemming from the implementation of electric trucks and develop plans for the vehicles’ deployment in VELUX’s daily operations.
“This initial pilot phase has allowed us to analyse real logistics flows and evaluate how electrification could work in practice,” says Max Blatt at LOTS Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Scania.
Max Blatt, CEO at LOTS Group.
“Building on those insights, we are now expanding the collaboration to explore how AI-driven logistics planning, data and electrified transport can support VELUX in reducing emissions across its network.”
Gustaf Sundell, Executive Vice President and Head of Ventures and New Business at Scania, adds, “For Scania, electrification is not only about replacing the drivetrain – it requires new ways of planning, operating and optimising transport flows together with customers.
“Collaborations like this help us understand how data, operations and charging infrastructure must work together in real-world logistics.”
VELUX is exploring how electric transport can support its ambition to reduce emissions across its logistics network.
“Reducing emissions from transport is an important part of our climate journey at VELUX. Through this collaboration with LOTS Group, we can use real logistics data to better understand where electrification can create value and how it can be implemented in a way that supports both our sustainability ambitions and operational performance,” says Nadia Møllebjerg, Senior Program Manager, Logistics Sustainability at VELUX.
Electrification requires new ways of planning and operating transport
In recent years, Scania’s work to accelerate electrification of European transport has both intensified and diversified. The company has transitioned from being a truck manufacturer to a provider of solutions that support the whole ecosystem surrounding electric transport, and a partner in various initiatives that advance electrification on several different fronts. As its logistics arm, LOTS Group has a key role to play.
One of Scania and LOTS’ key tools for achieving this is to work with like-minded actors in the transport system. VELUX is a great example. Having set ambitious climate targets the Danish company is now actively exploring solutions that can reduce emissions across its value chain.
A blueprint for electrifying European freight transport
The goal for LOTS and VELUX in this collaboration is to combine agentic logistics planning (the use of autonomous AI agents that can analyse dynamic data and execute multi-step operations without human intervention) with electric transport solutions, so they can support the long-term decarbonisation of VELUX’s European logistics operations.
The partnership aims to develop a scalable model for combining AI-based logistics planning with electric freight transport.
By combining AI-based planning, operational data and access to electric transport capacity, the partners aim to develop a scalable approach for electrifying long-haul logistics, demonstrating how the transition to zero-emission freight transport is already possible here and now.
Watch the collaboration in action
How LOTS Group and VELUX are exploring electric transport with AI.
Explore Scania's approach to transport electrification