ZF says it will launch series production of a new modular inverter architecture in 2025, which will contain silicon carbide components supplied by STMicroelectronics.

Following validation tests, Scania and Northvolt confirmed that the cells have the capacity to propel trucks up to 1.5 million kilometres over their lifetime. 

Baraja is developing a lidar system called ‘Spectrum HD25’, which will work using ‘Spectrum-Scan 10’, a technology developed by the company to improve the accuracy and range of lidar-based (i.e., using laser imaging) perception.

The electric truck travelled a distance of over 3,000km in order to test and display its endurance under a raft of various climactic conditions to drive up interest before the vehicle goes into series production in September 2023.

The company said that the first customer orders will be fulfilled from Q3 2023 onwards. 

Volvo hopes that advances in this new area of digital innovation will make financial and insurance products “more dynamic and easier to access”.

Customers will consult them on the best e-powertrain layout for their needs, considering factors such as: maximising use of the available space; optimising weight distribution and the vehicle’s total weight; optimising vehicle payload and power, based on the customer’s use case.

This will require the integration of wireless technology into new commercial vehicles released in the market in the future as well as the collaboration to shape the standardisation of wireless EV charging.

As part of its environmental services remit, MUT manufactures municipal truck bodies for waste collection, street cleaning, and sewer treatment.

Costing GBP 100 million, the two-year demonstrator project of a one-megawatt SOEC system will be undertaken in 2024 at Bosch’s site in Stuttgart, with the aim of proving that the technology is both cost-effective and highly efficient in helping decarbonise industrial operations.

Hyvia will use this hydrogen to test out vehicles based on the Renault ‘Master’ LCV platform, producing enough hydrogen to test up to 1,000 fuel cells per year.

To strengthen the Mercedes-Benz truck service and sales network in Western Germany, Daimler Truck has opened a new 6,200 square metre Commercial Vehicle (CV) centre in Haan. It includes a high-voltage work stations for BEVs and a new warehouse capable of stocking more than 10,000 spare parts.