Scania tests truck trailer with solar panels | Automotive Industry News

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In a investigation partnership, Scania says it will develop a solar mobile clad trailer to power a plug-in hybrid truck. First tests point out possible gas price savings of 5–10 {0764260a27b4b31ca71a8adf79c3ae299a61e6f062052eee3f0df84ce9b30ade} in Sweden and two times that volume in sunnier southern Spain.

“Solar cells have beforehand been utilized on boats and caravans but then only to power auxiliaries these kinds of as fridges and cookers and not the true powertrain,” says Eric Falkgrim, Technologies Leader in Automobile Style and design at Scania R&D.

The truck will be operated in day by day transportation assignments by the Swedish haulier Ernst Express, which also collaborated with Scania in trials of the world’s initial electrical street with overhead catenary traces. Ernst Express will run an eighteen-metre extended solar mobile clad trailer with a total location alongside the sides and roof of one hundred forty sq. metres. In total, the solar panels are anticipated in Sweden to every year crank out 14,000 kWh.

The investigation job will also examine whether or not the trailer can feed electric power into the grid when the batteries are absolutely billed and the truck is parked, for instance, above weekends.

Fuel price savings up to ten {0764260a27b4b31ca71a8adf79c3ae299a61e6f062052eee3f0df84ce9b30ade} in Sweden

In a pre-analyze, operations in mid-Sweden were being simulated achieving a likely gas saving of 5–10 {0764260a27b4b31ca71a8adf79c3ae299a61e6f062052eee3f0df84ce9b30ade}. In Sweden, there is plenty of daylight from spring to autumn to crank out energy and although the sun is weak except through summer, there are much more several hours of daylight. All through the relaxation of the yr , there is insufficient sun in Sweden. By distinction, southern Spain has 80 {0764260a27b4b31ca71a8adf79c3ae299a61e6f062052eee3f0df84ce9b30ade} much more several hours of daylight, Scania reported.

The job is publicly funded the Swedish government’s innovation company Vinnova and aside from Scania and Ernst Express also engages Midsummer that manufactures the solar panels, Uppsala College, which conducts highly developed investigation on much more economical solar cells, and the Dalakraft energy company.