Recently, we saw that Scania has introduced the first gas powered truck which complies with Euro 6. A complicated achievement, as such an engine requieres a lot of electronics to make sure all sensors act and operate according to the Euro 6 protocol. As we all know, this protocol is much more complicated than Euro…… Continue Reading
The EU has made a proposal for longer trucks. The extra length is for creating more streamlined combinations. The proposal is there, but now each country has to implement the new lengths in their own laws. Let’s hope they succeed to do that in the same way all over Europe, because that is the only…… Continue Reading
Volvo and Scania are going to fight it out with their upcoming powerful sixteen litre Euro VI engines. Earlier this year, Scania unveiled its new V8 Euro 6 engine range. However, they left out one very important engine in their presentation: the most powerful one, the 730 hp plus variant. It appears now why Scania…… Continue Reading
Last week Scania offered us the chance to drive the new Euro-6 models in Sweden, including the new Streamline. I made this small movie to give you an impression of the day. Sorry for the sound, still working to get that right.. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aO6q6Pc4wE&w=560&h=315]… Continue Reading
Scania showed during the Bauma exhibition this big 10×4 R500. The thruck has two 9-ton front axles. two 16-ton driven axles and a 13 ton hydraulic steered tag axle. That makes a total GVW of 63 tons! An interesting detail is that Scania uses te corners on the cab of the Streamline version, without the…… Continue Reading
The EU has proposed new regulations for truck dimensions, which have just been sent to the Parliament. The proposed extra length is meant to improve air resistance, and it might be added at the front and at the rear of the truck combination. Also trucks are allowed to be a little wider to allow sideskirts…… Continue Reading
The new Scania Steamline is just out, and there is also the scale model! I found this on Facebook, and the Danish tekst says it is a Tekno 1:50 model. Looking good!… Continue Reading
Scania has its own logistic company, called Scania Transportlaboratorium AB. One of the routes is from Sweden to the Scania production plant in Zwolle, The Netherlands. The fleet of Scania Transportlaboratorium has all brands, and that makes it the perfect way to do their own comparison test. Here you see photo’s that Leonard made for…… Continue Reading
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Together with Siemens Scania developpes an electric powered truck with a pentograph, just like a train. Scania has for a long time explored the possibilities of electrifying the powertrain in buses and trucks. Siemens has been working with technology, in which vehicles receive power from a wire in the air via a pantograph on the…… Continue Reading
Bigtruck magazine editie 11 2024
BIGtruck Magazine Kippertest 2024
