Volvo Vehicles has delivered an electrical truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. The truck can deal with a complete weight of 74 tonnes.
Extra hauliers at the moment are beginning to spend money on electrical vans, additionally for heavy transport. Mattsson Åkeri in Gothenburg, Sweden is considered one of them, and the corporate has now purchased three heavy electrical Volvo FH vans from Volvo.
For the previous few weeks, testing has been ongoing on one of many vans in container site visitors within the port space of Arendal in Gothenburg. The check is a HCT (Excessive-Capability Transport) venture. The truck with two trailers is 32 m lengthy and may deal with a gross mixture weight of 74 tonnes.
We need to present that all-electric options additionally work in functions with excessive whole weights and a excessive utilization price. Along with Mattsson Åkeri, the Swedish Transport Administration and a number of other different companions, we at the moment are how we are able to optimize the operation of the electrical truck, together with how charging ought to happen in probably the most environment friendly method.
—Lena Larsson, venture supervisor of the HCT venture inside Volvo’s expertise group
The electrical truck being examined is a Volvo FH Electrical 6X4 and is charged with inexperienced electrical energy on the two quick 180 kW chargers that Mattsson Åkeri has put in within the firm’s depot in Arendal. In the long run, the truck may even run between Gothenburg and town of Borås, 70 km from Gothenburg.
Driving lengthy and heavy hundreds utilizing electrical energy works very properly to this point, and we are able to carry as a lot cargo as a diesel truck. The truck runs 12 hours a day, with a cease for charging when the motive force takes a break. We cost with inexperienced electrical energy and thus get no CO2 emissions. Silent, electrical operation additionally means a greater working surroundings for the motive force.
—Jan-Olof Mattsson, CEO of Mattsson Åkeri
Since Volvo Vehicles began manufacturing of all-electric vans in 2019, the corporate has bought almost 5,000 electrical vans in 40 nations all over the world. Volvo right now provides the trade’s widest product vary with six electrical fashions in collection manufacturing that meet a broad vary of wants for transport in and between cities. Globally, Volvo Vehicles has set the goal that half of all vans bought are electrical by 2030.
Excessive-Capability Transports. Excessive-Capability Transports (HCT) implies that the car’s size and/or gross weight is allowed to extend, which permits for a bigger load to be transported per car. HCT may be utilized on all kinds of drivelines. The concept is that HCT will contribute to decrease transport prices, lowered environmental affect, increased site visitors security, lowered street put on and decrease upkeep prices.
In Europe there are a variety of ongoing and deliberate HCT initiatives. One instance is Finland, the place it’s permitted to drive with 76 tonnes of whole weight and 34.5m truck mixtures on most roads. One other is Sweden, the place it’s allowed to drive 74 tonnes (BK4 street community) and check, with permission from authorities, truck mixtures of as much as 34.5m and 100tonnes on an outlined street community.