This heavy armored Scania was shot in the port, just before boarding to Finland. The Scania G460 8×8 truck has a heavy armored cab that has got nothing to do with design but everything with functionality!… Continue Reading
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First interior shots of the new DAF truck
DAF trucks is testing a lot of camouflaged trucks in a large field test. We saw a lot of different photo’s of the outside of the trucks, but here are the first interior shots. It is obvious that these are photo’s of an early prototype and the materials uses are probably not the final ones…… Continue Reading
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New DAF in 2021?
Every day we see black, camouflaged trucks on the roads now and that means something is coming from Eindhoven. There is no doubt about the brand, because the licence plate administration tells us this is a DAF XF530. The new DAF seems to get an even bigger cab than the Super Space Cab we know…… Continue Reading
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First Dutch licenced Ford F-Max on the road
Loetoning, a transport company from the south of The Netherlands has the very first Ford F-Max truck on a dutch licence plate. The company imported the truck from another European country. The F-Max is the first of four of these trucks. The Ford F-Max is produced in Turkey and is serviced in Europe by Tip…… Continue Reading
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New DAF; Large cab, compact exhaust system
The new DAF trucks are everywhere these days in field tests with customers. This one was spotted by Piet Oversloot. Thanks for the photo’s Piet! We see a large cab and it seems that the front overhang is larger than before. This results in more space behind the driver, and that is promissing! Another detail…… Continue Reading
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First Nikola Tre BEV
The joint venture between Iveco and Nikola is still going strong, and what you see here is not an Iveco S-Way with Nikola stickers but a Nikola Tre truck. The long wheelbased tractor unit is not a fuel cell truck, but a batery electric vehicle, BEV. This is the first that was assembled in Ulm,…… Continue Reading
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More detail on the new DAF
This time we got photo’s of Reyer de Jong who caught a new DAF in The Netherlands. It is a field test truck with probably the new Space Cab. We did see another version with an even larger cab, that could be the new Super Space Cab. That is, if DAF is continuing those names.…… Continue Reading
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Another new DAF
And again we got a photo of a DAF prototype on a test run. DAF seems to have started field tests with customers to test the new generation in the real world. The truck we see here has the new big cab and this one seems to have an extended front end. This truck has…… Continue Reading
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Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG together in fuel-cell joint venture
The Volvo Group and Daimler Truck AG have now a signed binding agreement for a joint venture to develop, produce and commercialize fuel-cell systems for use in heavy-duty trucks as the primary focus, as well as other applications. The ambition of both partners is to make the new company a leading global manufacturer of fuel-cells,…… Continue Reading
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DAF Fieldtest started
Today we got these photo’s of a DAF prototype with a trailer of a transport company. It looks like the fieldtest has started now. What we see here could be the next DAF CF, because the photos we got before show a higher cab. It seems that DAF is going to build a modular concept…… Continue Reading
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