Volvo Trucks announced a new, all-electric power take-off (PTO) that’s significantly expanding what the brand’s VNR Electric semi trucks are capable of – just before teasing not one but two all-new HD truck offerings.
Volvo Group always approaches the ACT Expo as a unified front, bringing trucks, construction equipment, power production, and energy products (along with my friends at Volvo Financial Services, of course) to the event as a broad, functional ecosystem of solutions to get the stuff that’s here over there.
They also use the show as a launchpad for new products, which is exactly what they did last night announcing the new ePTO for VNR Electric.
The new ePTO allows fleets running VNR Electric Class 8 trucks to power equipment using the truck’s onboard traction batteries, without a diesel engine running as a genset in the background. The resulting truck is a fully electric solution that can handle demanding jobs with zero-tailpipe emissions and significantly less noise and vibration than before.
“Volvo Trucks has been at the forefront of battery-electric innovation for several years, and we are continuing to expand what these vehicles can do for our customers in North America,” said Peter Voorhoeve, president, Volvo Trucks North America. “With solutions like the mechanical electric power take-off, we are enabling fleets to electrify more demanding, real-world applications while building on a foundation of proven performance and a well-established support ecosystem.”
Ready for action
The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is one the first customers in America to deploy a VNR Electric with the new ePTO. The unit is a straight truck configured as a multi-purpose municipal vehicle featuring a 15-foot composite cargo body that can function as a flatbed with a liftgate or be used as a dump truck with a hydraulic lift, demonstrating that Volvo’s electric trucks can now support a broad range of more demanding applications.
The Caltrans trucks join the more than 750 Volvo VNR Electric trucks currently in operation across the US and Canada, where they’ve collectively logged more than 30 million zero- emission miles and displaced an estimated 50,000 metric tons of CO2.
As for the two all-new HD models teased at ACT, we’ll be covering those in the next few hours. Stay tuned!
SOURCE | IMAGES: Volvo Trucks.
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