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IAA Transportation 2022 - Hannover Germany 20-25 September #IAA22

Tickets: www.iaa-transportation.com

From its former name of IAA Commercial Vehicles to IAA Transportation, the biggest biennial commercial vehicle show in Europe is evolving to meet the changing and challenging post-COVID business landscape. Once again, many, many halls within the vast Hannover Messe complex will be buzzing with activity, with a focus from exhibitors on meeting new legislation and sharing the journey towards climate change neutrality.

According to Hildegard Müller, President of the VDA, on behalf of the organisers, the renewed and restructured five day public event will provide a stage for the ongoing technological transformation of the transport industry and create a networking platform for manufacturers, suppliers and customers.

Hildegard Müller, President VDA

In her opening address at the IAA Transportation International Press Workshop in Frankfurt, Ms Müller outlined how the COVID pandemic changed mobility, affecting supply chains and work and requiring lifestyles to adjust accordingly. She highly praised the logistics sector, especially the drivers, in exceeding all expectations towards meeting consumer demand and ensuring that supermarket shelves were kept topped up. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has since presented additional challenges, resulting in record high fuel and energy prices, with Hildegard highlighting that Europe as a whole needs to partner with existing and future energy producers to ensure supply security and help a faster transition to Battery Electric and Hydrogen power sources of propulsion. “The focus needs to be sharpened further on these alternatives, otherwise we will fail to meet the EU targets of 2030 and beyond,” she said.

Another major challenge has been supply chain issues, with severe shortages of electrical components mainly for the auto industry. These have had a knock on effect throughout the industry and are still continuing, with long lead times for new vehicle deliveries.

Iaa traNSPOrtatION 2022

New topics: Logistics, Transport, Digitisation, Climate Neutrality, Last Mile, People

theme Days: Future Logistics, Trade & Logistics, Infrastructure, Commercial Transport

Leading Platform: IAA Conference, Top Class Speakers, Exchange of Views, Future Global Transport, Networking & Exchange

Exhibitors: Commercial Vehicles, Bus & Last Mile

awards: Announcement & Presentation of the 2023 International Truck of the Year & Truck Innovation Awards. The International Van of the Year and Trailer Innovation Awards.

The day long preview workshop conference heard from senior executives from various prime exhibitors from the commercial vehicle, trailer and energy suppliers.

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Dr. Gerrit Marx, CEO Iveco Magirus AG

Dr. Gerrit Marx, CEO Iveco Magirus AG explained that through its eight brands, the newly formed independent company (separated from CNH Industrial) is “well on the road of change - collaborating and partnering ‘The Iveco Way’ with effective investment driving better innovation”. These partnerships are

delivering on new battery pack plants, autonomous driving, and battery and hydrogen powered vans, trucks and buses, with up to 50 examples exhibited at the IAA Transportation in Hall 24 and also outside the Messe.

One of these show-stoppers will be the premiere of the new eDaily, which will offer various degrees of range distance (up to 300km) and cover from 3.5 to 7.2 tonnes GVW. A prototype of the eDaily Hydrogen will also be debuted, coming with 400km capacity. From its FPT Industrial division, the next generation empower train will be revealed as will a totally newly developed and even more frugal Cursor 13 diesel and natural gas engine. The commercialisation of the joint venture with Nikola to produce the Tre BEV & H2 heavy-duty trucks based on the Iveco S-Way is progressing well, with the start of EU assembly at Ulm, Germany during 2023. The new vehicles will be officially launched at the IAA.

QuaNtrON

Michael Perschke, CEO, Quantron AG perked up the interest of the physical and virtual attendees by announcing a number of zero emission solutions. “The world needs zero emission solutions for people and goods - Quatron has the answers,” he stated.

With a 140 year history in the commercial vehicle services and technology sectors, Quantron is much focussed on becoming a full holistic supplier of vehicles, from trucks and buses to power and recharging/refuelling provision. Under its ‘Empower the Future’ programme, the big challenge, Michael said, is to ensure a cost neutral emission-free offering in comparison with a diesel truck or bus, from 2024 onwards.

By introducing Quantron-as-a-service, with a ‘pay as you go’ model that is tailored to meet customers specific requirements, this reduces any potential risk for owners and operators. On the truck side, there are many options, catering from 3.5 to 7.5 to 18-tonnes GVW BEVs, and 44-60 tonne HDVs, allied to hydrogen technology that can cover from 250 to 1,000km, according to the vehicle and energy power choice. Retrofits on existing ICE models to zero-emission can also be carried out. A selection of these models are available to order, including a heavy duty battery electric tractor-unit and rigid, using a MAN TGX & TGS glider chassis/cab. Due for an IAA unveiling is a hydrogen fuel cell powered bespoke tractor-unit, that will go on sale this time next year.

Michael Perschke, CEO, Quantron AG KrONE

‘Mission Beyond Zero’ was the Krone Trailer theme for Dr. Frank Albers, Managing Director to explain. “We go further than ‘Zero- Emission - Going Beyond Zero’”, he said, “with a compre-

hensive concept to include sustainability/electrification, digitisation and automation”. Providing details of the new Krone eTrailer with its powerful electric axle and sensory control of the electric driveline, he said it will deliver fuel and CO2 reductions of up to 20%. The onboard charger and battery pack carried will fulfil the refrigerator unit requirements. Another development underway is a new ‘floating’ fifth wheel coupling, again saving energy. It’s set for launch at the Hannover show.

Further modifications to Krone’s telematics packages will be announced as will the introduction of solar panel fittings, aimed at bringing down carbon footprints. “And while data exchange is essential, the information downloads will always belong to the client,” he emphasised.

Dr. Frank Albers, Managing Director, Krone

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Connected to Krone is the Last Mile Delivery solution from Rytle. “for the on demand world of tomorrow,” as stated by its MD Dr. Arne Kruse. Offering numerous cargo bike designs and

systems, Arne sees “massive market need and opportunity” as the business from e-commerce and last mile delivery continues to thrive. He gave some figures on the volume of internet transactions. “100 billion parcels were delivered worldwide in 2020, which will increase to 200 billion by 2025, with significant growth of ad-hoc deliveries.”

Exampled was the Rytle MovR3, which he stressed is the ‘game changer in urban deliveries’. “It’s 30% faster than a van, 90% closer to the door, economical, ecological, efficient and ergonomic. The ultimate last mile vehicle.” Unique to this vehicle is the rearward driving automatic fork lifter.

Unique to this electric delivery box on three wheels is an ecosystem built around micro hubs ‘to keep the goods on the move’. To get the MovR3 to where it is today, four years of testing with ‘real customers’ like DHL & UPS ensured that it was fine-tuned to the last before market launch.

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MAN Truck & Bus boss Alexander Vlaskamp reflected on the Munich-based manufacturer’s history in producing powered vehicles, highlighting the MAN (50km) Elektrobus developed especially for the 1972 Olympic Games, held in Germany. He then brought us forward 50 years to the current Electric City bus that can reach 550km (with one battery charge). With orders for 1,000 units in the bank, the company’s BEV strategy

is working, he noted. It’s a similar story with trucks (and vans) since the eTGM medium-duty truck was launched in 2019. Work on developing a heavy duty BEV powered truck is ongoing, with upscaling on production to begin in 2024. Range distance capabilities are expected to improve significantly, in fact more than double from 320km to 600-800km achievable by 2025, with 1,000km within sights after that. Alexander predicts that by 2030 one in every two trucks will be zero emission.

Alexander Vlaskamp, MAN Truck & Bus

NEStE

Finnish fuel supplier Neste had Peter Zonneveld, VP, Sales explain about the company’s journey to carbon neutral using renewable fuels as a decarbonisation alternative”.

Established over 70 years ago, Neste is now the world’s number one provider of renewable diesel and sustainable fuels, with 92% of its total renewable fuel stocks based on waste products and residues. That’s enough fuel to power 4.2 million cars. Neste’s strategic focus on renewables extends to road transportation, aviation and polymers/chemicals, sectors that will see a reduction in crude oil dependency.

But if we have electrification - why do we need renewable fuels? “Sustainable transport requires all low-carbon solutions. Both electrification and renewable fuels are needed and these have significant scalability. With Neste’s MY renewable diesel, it is a fuel that can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average 90% compared to fossil diesel, and it is usable in any diesel engine. Availability of MY is expanding, with the product offered in 600 fuel stations in 28 countries to date.

Peter Zonneveld, VP, Sales, Neste

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Patrick Hermanspann, CEO, Faun

‘Enginius: Trucks for carbon neutral transport’ was the theme from the Faun Group in promoting trucks with hydrogen fuel cell drivetrains. Enginius is a new brand from the Lower Saxony manufacturer for trucks powered by hydrogen-electric fuel cells. In fact as Patrick Hermanspann, the company CEO proudly stated, Faun became the first vehicle manufacturer with a EU Type Approval for hydrogen and electrically powered trucks with a hydrogen fuel cell system (FCEV). Faun, the Germanheadquartered refuse collection vehicles specialist introduced

its BluePower range in 2019, with 21 units based on the Mercedes-Benz Econic currently in operation. “BluePower stands for hydrogen powered trucks in municipal operations, offering a total payload of 17 tonnes, a 250km range and a16kg fast refuelling in 15 minutes @700 bar,” said Patrick, highlighting that on average a refuse truck stops and starts up to 800 times per day.

For city distribution applications Faun has CityPower, also powered by hydrogen and built on the Mercedes-Benz Atego glider. Offering a 9 tonne payload with 500km, it takes 30 minutes to refuel 32kg @700 bar. Using the same platform base, a battery electric version has an 8.9 tonne payload, 200km in range and requires 3 hours to charge the 315 kWh battery pack. 2027 is a diary date in the Faun Group calendar, as Patrick estimates that there will be 12,000 H2 powered trucks operational by then, requiring 96,000 tonnes of hydrogen. To meet this demand, Faun will partner with several consortiums and providers of fuelling stations such as Shell, which plans to have up to 50 H2 fuel stops for trucks active across Europe by 2025.

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Europe’s biggest trailer manufacturer Schmitz Cargobull was represented by Andreas Schmitz, CEO, who discussed ‘The Role of Trailers & Digital Transport’ under three headings: Transport options to reduce CO2, Sustainability solutions of trailer manufacturers, and Digitalisation of Trailers. Andreas outlined that transport volumes in general will further increase, with road operations being the dominant force. Having to reduce emissions from this road fleet is a major problem, hence he supports the campaign for more rail freight. “We need to transport more goods via railways in order to reduce transport emissions and this can be easily enabled by shifting to more intermodal transport and optimise more environmentally friendly road transport.”

“An expansion of infrastructure through the construction of new trans-shipment terminals and the connection of shippers and freight forwarders to the rail network,” is what he advised.

To explore road transport options further, Andrea’s suggested that with the EcoDuo concept, significant emissions reduction can be achieved. Two semi-trailers on tow from the tractor-unit can carry up to 70 tonnes. This 31.5m/46.5tonne payload application can cut up to 25% in emissions and also help with the truck driver shortage issue.

For the ultimate in current emissions savings, Schmitz Cargobull has the S.KOe Cool Smart trailer system that features an electric reefer unit and e-axle together with telematics plus fittings for solar roof panels, if required.

Andreas Schmitz, CEO, Schmitz Cargobull MErcEDES-BENz trucKS

Further to Karin Radstrom’s presentation recently to the International Truck of the Year jury, where the head of MercedesBenz Trucks outlined plans for the electrification and hydrogenation of its truck fleet, she is looking forward to launching the all new eActros Long Haul 40-tonne GVW Electric truck for long distance road transport.

“The electrification of heavy long-distance transport is the next milestone on our road to CO2-neutrality. The eActros LongHaul is a battery-electric vehicle which is planned to be economically feasible for our customers.”

The first prototypes are already undergoing intensive testing and the eActros LongHaul will be tested on public roads this year. In the coming year, near- production prototypes will go to customers for real-world use testing. Series readiness is planned for 2024, she added. On a single battery charge the eActros LongHaul will have a range of around 500 kilometres.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks will present further new battery-electric trucks at IAA, such as the eEconic for municipal use. The triple star brand is pursuing the goal of increasing the proportion of locally CO2-neutral new vehicles in Europe to more than 50 percent by 2030. Other show-stoppers will include the new OM471 13-litre diesel, the revised MirrorCam system and a further updated GenH2 hydrogen powered truck. Text: Jarlath Sweeney – editor@fleet.ie

Ms. Muller and Karin Radstromm