Volvo’s new truck that will change the important market
AB Volvo has invested more than SEK 4 billion and built a new cab factory in the USA. Now the automotive giant has presented the result: a new streamlined truck that will provide 10 percent better fuel economy and replace an almost seven-year-old model. The model will be the platform for all future technology with battery electric, fuel cell and internal combustion engines including hydrogen.
The new vehicle, which is of the VNL model, is mainly intended for long-distance traffic and has involved investments of more than 400 million dollars, wrote the truck magazine Proffs the day after the launch. • VNL stands for “Volvo Normal Long”, where normal means a car with a hood in front of the cab, in American “conventional”. “L” can also mean longhaul, which means long-distance car.
“We are convinced that this new platform is a so-called game changer with class-leading fuel efficiency for higher productivity and reduced carbon dioxide emissions,” writes CEO Martin Lundstedt in AB Volvo’s latest year-end report.
The model replaces one from 2017, and has taken six years to develop. Among the investments is a new cab factory in the city of Dublin, Virginia.
Read more about Volvo’s model VNL.
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