Halving emissions within five years

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Scania Group Press Release / December 3, 2015

Cutting carbon dioxide emissions in half within five years is possible with today’s technology. Driver training, properly adapted trucks and fully loaded trailers have enabled the Scania Transport Laboratory to reduce its CO₂ emissions from 70 to 33 grams per tonne-kilometre. Each gram corresponds to a decrease of 100 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually.

Scania Transport Laboratory works like an ordinary commercial transport company. It deals with some of Scania’s own transports between the production facilities in Södertälje, Sweden, and Zwolle, the Netherlands.

The Transport Lab has the support of Scania’s R&D department to test, evaluate and develop new products, services and methods that match customers’ present and future needs.

Since its beginning in 2008, Scania Transport Laboratory has been able to improve its vehicle efficiency in a way that has attracted worldwide interest from the transport sector and trade press. Today its carbon dioxide emissions are 33 grams per tonne-kilometre, or half the industry average.

The key success factors include continuous driver training and follow-up of driver behaviour, properly adapted vehicles that allow the company’s drivers to drive at 80 km/hr with the lowest possible revs and to maximise loads on each shipment.

But although the Transport Lab has halved CO₂ emissions per tonne-kilometre in five years, it sees a potential to reduce emissions further by driving in convoys, or platoons, as well as testing longer, heavier rigs – 32-metre rigs with a gross vehicle weight of 76 tonnes.

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Achieving fossil-free transport

Scania Group Press Release / December 3, 2015

What does the road to fossil-free transport look like? Here are Scania’s thoughts on when the different alternative fuels and new technologies, such as electrification, will have their major breakthrough.

The idea of the December 2015 Paris climate summit is to get the countries of the world to come together in an agreement, with each of them involved and contributing to the limiting of carbon dioxide emissions.

The transport industry has an important role in this area. New technologies, such as electrification and hybridisation, will become increasingly important in order for the transport industry to contribute to the attainment of the UN’s climate goals. However, renewable fuels can already contribute to lowered CO₂ emissions, and to helping haulage firms and bus companies take a step towards fossil-free fleets.

In combination with these CO₂-cutting technologies, higher energy efficiency is also a key factor. Better coordination and greater use of wireless technology could help to maximise shipment loads. Energy savings can also be obtained by more efficient powertrains and more efficient vehicle technology.

Together these technologies will enable the transport industry to contribute to the goal of a fossil free future.

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