Heavy electric trucks with a gross combination weight of 74 tons will be employed by Kaunis Iron to transport ore on a 160-kilometre route between Kaunisvaara and Pitkäjärvi in the Lapland region, starting next year.

The I-Shift gearbox is currently fitted with all heavy-duty Volvo trucks as standard, but new vehicles will come with an improved version with faster clutch actuation resulting in a shorter torque interruption and smoother gear shifting.

The Swedish manufacturer will begin mass production and sales of heavy-duty fuel-cell electric trucks in the second half of this decade, following the recent start of prototype trials on the company’s test track. 

The Swedish manufacturer will introduce fossil-free steel, made using a new technology based on hydrogen by SSAB, into its line of heavy-duty electric trucks, starting in the third quarter of 2022. 

The Swedish manufacturer has opened its first battery assembly plant in Ghent, East Flanders, where series production of batteries for its heavy-duty electric trucks will begin in the third quarter of this year. 

Volvo Trucks has signed an agreement with sewer management firm Bucher Municipal AG to collaborate in the development of electric trucks for sewer cleaning applications. 

According to IHS Markit, Volvo Trucks achieved a 42% share of the electric truck market in Europe, with 145 vehicles under the Volvo brand having been registered in 2021.

The order for 11 units of the FM Electric, which are to be employed as concrete mixing transport trucks, is the largest the company has received so far for electric trucks in Denmark.

The Swedish manufacturers claims it is the largest such order it has received to date for its FL and FE electric trucks in Europe.

Volvo Trucks' patented Active Grip Control will help prevent wheel spin when the truck begins to skid.

More than 100 local authorities are taking legal action against Daimler, DAF, Volvo, MAN, Iveco, and Scania, who were found to have colluded in price fixing over fourteen years in 2016.

A review of the market opportunity for LNG-powered trucks in the UK. Bradley Osborne of T&BB reviews the market with a special focus on Volvo Truck’s proposition to discover a potentially very different market proposition to that of three years’ ago, when the first Volvo FH LNG trucks were introduced to the UK.