Volvo's Dynamic Steering adds a lot of flexibility to a truck and the ability to control steering inputs more precisely, taking a lot of the load off of the driver.
At its Technology Summit, Volvo Trucks North America highlighted a number of new products and upgrades, including a glimpse of an all-electric Class 8 VNR slated for production next year.
Volvo's electric VNR tractor is set to be deployed at the ports of Southern California as part of the Volvo Lights project to see how a battery-electric truck would fare in real-world operations. Jim Park has this first look.
At the Technology Summit at the Volvo Customer Center in Dublin, Virginia, Volvo Trucks not only highlighted its latest technology; it also gave reporters a report on the state of the North American truck-building industry and the company's position within it.
Volvo says its next generation of turbo compounding technology will provide a 3% boost in fuel economy compared to its current 13L engine.
Volvo plans to expand its current New River Valley plant in Virginia, which produces all Volvo trucks sold in North America.
Three-point seat belts have saved over a million lives since their introduction. Volvo is celebrating the design's 60th anniversary by stressing to truck drivers the safety benefit of belting up..
Volvo said the latest versions of its Active Driver Assist technology will be standard equipment in all new VNR and VNL models, and available as optional equipment on VNX models, beginning later this year.
Accounting for unpredictable human behavior is a major problem for autonomous vehicle control systems. Volvo Truck North America's new partnership with Perceptive Automata is seeking answers to that puzzle.
Volvo's new research agreement with American technology developer Nvidia, is focused on creating a flexible, scalable autonomous driving system to used in future commercial vehicles.