The return of the ‘Super’: Scania’s new diesel powertrain
By Bradley Osborne - 22nd November 2021
The new Scania ‘Super’
Sweden – The case for electric vehicles – promulgated with increasing fervour by public relations practitioners, journalists, politicians and corporate executives who are finally following the lead of the environmental advocates – has become so firmly entrenched in mainstream discourse that, for most people involved in the automotive industry, the question of transitioning entirely from the diesel-powered internal combustion engine is no longer about “if” but “when”. This is increasingly the case even in the heavy-duty segment, for which, despite the dizzying array of choice in the forms of battery-electric, hybrid electric, hydrogen fuel-cell electric and alternative fuels, there is no silver bullet; and yet the pressure mounts on manufacturers and fleet operators to replace the diesel engine with something else – anything else – to reduce the sector’s disproportionate contribution to total carbon emissions.
