Future trucks on green tape

The 2020 Volvo Concept Truck is the vision of the future Volvo Trucks, which can move in columns for long distances controlled by the autopilot on green corridors that will link the continents.

These visions gave birth to the concept, but it would look like in 10 years? Rikard Orell, Design Director at Volvo Trucks said "that's the idea" that "progress” is increasing rapidly. Much of the technology will be embedded in the already existed concept and the rest needs to be developed.

Safer and more efficient form of transport

Due to continuous expansion of transport, safety and efficiency will become the main issues to betaken into account in developing future models of trucks. This concept has many ideas on how these objectives can be achieved, a lot of them can go into production today, being are already available.

Connecting multiple vehicles in road trains that can cross continents is the main idea of the concept, but this can be possible only after the “green corridors” idea will be implemented in the construction of highways. The idea involves the development of “green lanes” dedicated to fright transport and separate it from the other traffic. The advantages would be increased traffic safety, more space in traffic, reduced road wear, fuel consumption and CO2 emissions are reduced due to lack of friction with the air and the driver can relax at the wheel while the truck drives itself, all this leads to a reduction in transport time and delivery.