Simply over two years in the past, Volvo Vehicles launched the VNR Electrical regional transport truck to the US market, and now the corporate has introduced an enhanced model – with extra per-charge vary and sooner charging.
The category 8 electrical truck is a part of a six-strong fleet of all-electric heavy vans within the Volvo Vehicles vary, and is accessible in four-battery and six-battery variations, with configurations for the previous working to 4x2, 6x2 or 6x4 truck or tractor setups, whereas the six-battery config is obtainable as a 6x2 or 6x4 tractor.
Onboard vitality storage capability tops out at 565 kWh for a per-charge vary of as much as 275 miles (440 km) – representing an 85 % enhance on the VNR Electrical from December 2020. And braking vitality may be trickled again into the battery stacks to probably eke slightly extra vary earlier than needing to tug right into a charging station.
The truck helps 250-kW fast-charging that permits drivers of a four-battery truck to get to 80-percent capability in 60 minutes whereas the six-battery setup goes to 80-percent in 90 minutes.
The VNR Electrical's 455-hp (340-kW) drivetrain can produce as much as 4,051 lb-ft (5,492 Nm) of peak output torque, options two-speed automated transmission and is reported to have a highway-capable prime pace of 68 mph (109 km/h). The truck additionally comes with ahead collision avoidance tech that makes use of radar and cameras to help drivers in responding to altering site visitors conditions and assist scale back collision threat.
Manufacturing of the improved VNR Electrical is because of begin within the second quarter of this yr at Volvo's New River Valley facility in Virginia, and is one other optimistic step in direction of the corporate's objective of getting electrical vans make up 50 % of its world gross sales by 2030. The video under has extra.
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