Subject to regulatory approval, the joint venture will be launched in 2024, with both partners pledging to invest EUR300m each over the next three years.

A Reuters report yesterday announced that the Swedish-based electric vehicle startup has decided to file for bankruptcy in its home country.

Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong - all are RHD markets i.e. drive on the left - are the first markets to receive Scania's battery electric trucks.

The first project, beginning this year, will take place at a mine in Garpenberg, Sweden.

Volvo says it will begin receiving steel products from the mill in mid-2026, though H2 Green Steel has stated that customer deliveries will start in 2027.

Scania says it is working with Spanish coachbuilder Irizar to integrate the ‘i6s Efficient’ with a Scania gas-powered chassis, with a target completion date of end-of-2025.

MCV will produce the buses under licence at its facility in Egypt, employing chassis supplied from Volvo’s factories in Sweden.

The Ghent factory is assembling battery electric versions of the heavy-duty FH, FM, and FMX ranges on the same production line as the diesel and natural gas ones.

The battery assembly launch will allow Scania to commence serial production of heavy-duty electric vehicles at Södertälje.

The FH – standing for ‘Forward control High entry’ – was launched to replace the ‘F’ series of trucks which had been in production for over 15 years.

The prototype truck is a 560-horsepower plug-in hybrid which pulls an 18-metre trailer installed with solar panels.

There are now seven autonomous FH trucks operating at the site, managed remotely via a touch screen in the wheel loader.