Volvo 24 Volt Trucks Hit Market Ready To Lower Emissions And Provide Redundant Power For Potential Autonomous Operations
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Freight Waves reports that Volvo has brought to market its first updated long haul trailer truck with aan upgraded 24 volt power system that offers a number of improvements that will improve the market for near zero emissions logistics and potential future uses of autonomous truck operation during the operational lifetime of the new offerings
“Volvo Trucks North America’s first new over-the-road VNL in seven years features a more powerful electrical system to help power eventual autonomous driving while aerodynamics and powertrain improvements boost fuel efficiency by up to 10%.”
As the logistics industry rapidly moves to improve efficiency, lower emissions and other environmental impacts, and other long term challenges including driver and road safety, having the marketplace offer as many options to operators as possible is absolutely key. At the same time energy grid operators are continuing to try and update their production and transmission capacity for the requirements of the increasing use of electricity as a source of energy in multimodal transportation.
This story of how the economy will continue to expand while meeting established public agency goals of zero emissions of carbon and related climate change gases by the mid 2030’s is critical and we will continue to report on it.
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