* Sweden - Volvo Truck Demand Drops on European Crisis
Gothenburg,Sweden -Inautonews (USA) -19 Sept 2012: -- Volvo reported a 4% sales drop in truck shipments in August due to the economic crisis affecting Europe and South America... World number two truck maker also said that sales in its home market are also beginning to drop. After the strong recovery seen in 2010 and 2011, truck makers now have to face the downfall brought by the euro zone debt crisis which causes a severe demand fall in Europe and other markets as well... In August shipments in Asia were up 9%, in North America increased 6%, while in South America fell 22%. Volvo expects to sell 230,000 heavy trucks in Europe by the end of this year, down 5% from last year...
* Sweden - Volvo to Invest SEK783 Million in Production Facility in Russia
Gothenburg,Sweden -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox Business (USA), by Christina Zander -September 13, 2012: -- Swedish truck maker Volvo AB said Thursday it will invest 783 million Swedish kronor ($119 million) in a new facility for the production of cabs at the plant in the Russian city of Kaluga... The facility, which is expected to become operational in 2014, will manufacture cabs for the Volvo and Renault Trucks brands with a total annual capacity of 15,000 cabs... The plant in Kaluga, situated about 200 kilometers south of Moscow, was inaugurated in 2009 and currently supplies Russia and the surrounding countries with trucks under the Volvo and Renault Trucks brands. The total annual capacity of the facility is 15,000 trucks... In 2012, the total market for Western premium heavy trucks in Russia alone is expected to amount to 28,000 vehicles, which represents a two-fold increase compared with 2010, the company said...
* Sweden - New Volvo COE Unveiled in
(Photo: During an extravaganza gala event in Gothenburg, Sweden, the new Volvo FH was introduced, featuring the Volvo Independent Front Suspension system with rack and pinion steering)
Gothenborg,Sweden -HDT/Truckinginfo, by Sven-Erik Lindstrand -20 Sept 2012: -- Recently the world premiere and official launch of the new Volvo FH Series was held in Gothenburg, Sweden, with parallel events in Madrid, Birmingham, Paris, Rotterdam and Brussels... The Volvo FH series comes with a new independent front suspension system with rack and pinion steering. This means that each front wheel is suspended separately from the other so it does not affect the movement of the other wheel... The new cab is one cubic meter larger inside (35 cubic feet)... Volvo has spent 10 million engineering hours in developing the new truck... Ten trucks from the new Volvo FH series will be on show at the upcoming IAA in Hannover later this month (including one that has been crashed into a concrete wall), as well as a range of new components such as the I-Torque driveline and Volvo Trucks' first Euro 6 engine...
* USA - UD Trucks to End U.S. Sales
Irving,Texas,USA -Transport Topic -20 Sept 2012: -- UD Trucks North America is ending production of its line of cab-over-engine trucks for the United States at the end of this year... UD is part of the Volvo Truck Group, and began notifying dealers last week... Volvo cited a shrinking COE segment and the cost of regulatory compliance as reasons for the decision... While UD Trucks is one of the largest truck makers in Japan and some Southeast Asia markets, it has struggled to gain traction in the United States and has less than 1% of the U.S. market. The company reported selling 389 trucks through the first eight months of this year, according to WardsAuto.com. That compares with 8,425 for Isuzu Commercial Trucks of America and 1,895 for Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America in that same period... UD Trucks has 119 dealers in the United States...
* Sweden - Volvo AB Completes Acquisition of Shares in Deutz AG
Gothenburg,Sweden -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox usiness -September 13, 2012: -- Swedish truck maker Volvo AB said Thursday it has completed a previously announced transaction and increased its shareholding in German engine maker Deutz AG to just over 25% from 6.7%... Volvo has acquired 22,117,693 shares from Same Deutz-Fahr Group for 130 million euros ($167 million). The transaction makes AB Volvo the largest shareholder in Deutz... The company said Deutz has been a strategic supplier of medium duty engines to the Volvo Group for more than a decade. Earlier this year, AB Volvo and Deutz signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to explore the potential to extend the companies' long-term cooperation through joint development of the next generation of medium duty engines for off-road applications...
* Germany - Daimler to take on Volkswagen's truck challenge
Stuttgart,Germany -MarketWatch, (USA), by Christoph Rauwald -Sept. 17, 2012: -- Daimler AG, the world's largest truck maker by revenue, said it is prepared to take on German archrival Volkswagen AG, who wants to dethrone the market leader by 2020 through close cooperation between its two truck units MAN SE and Scania AB... MAN, which was acquired by Volkswagen last year, has drafted a plan to claim the truck industry's top spot by 2020. Close cooperation with VW's other truck brand, Scania, is the cornerstone of this strategy, the brainchild of VW's influential supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piech, to benefit from significant cost synergies such as through joint purchasing and development...
* Germany - Volkswagen: No Plans to Fully Merge MAN, Scania
Wolfsburg,Germany -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox Business -September 14, 2012: -- German truckmaker MAN SE and Swedish partner Scania AB, both majority owned by Volkswagen AG, won't be fully merged, the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports Friday... "It isn't about the integration of the companies, but intelligent coordination," Volkswagen board member Leif Oestling told the newspaper... Oestling, former chief executive of Scania, is head of Volkswagen's commercial vehicles division. He notes that MAN and Scania traditionally have different types of customers, and should remain independent competitors. There aren't plans to design uniform truck models for the two companies, he added... Despite a weakening global economy, Oestling is aiming for higher sales, the paper reports... The lion's share of additional sales are likely to be in emerging-market economies such as China or India, he added, the paper reports...
* Germany - Daimler to Push More Vertical Integration with Engine-Transmission 'Modules' Next Year
Kassel,Germany -TruckingInfo, by Tom Berg -21 Sept 2012: -- Daimler Trucks intends to push for vertically integrated components in its American Freightliner and Western Star models, and next year will begin offering engine-transmission "modules" that promise greater efficiency for customers. These will link Detroit diesels and automated mechanical transmissions that will deliver up to 7% better fuel economy than existing combinations... The heavy-duty DT12, a 12-speed ATM based on a Mercedes-Benz product from Germany, will be paired with the DD15 engine next May, the DD13 in November and the DD16 sometime in 2014... Freightliner's Cascadia and other long-haul models will get the options. The DD15 will also use a "captive" turbocharger, but he didn't elaborate on that... Customers on all other continents in which Daimler competes accept vertically integrated trucks where the original equipment manufacturer makes or controls what's installed... Detroit diesels have been standard in most Freightliners and Western Stars for some time, while certain Cummins diesels are optional... Cummins also supplies natural gas engines to Daimler Trucks North America, something that's expected to continue because Daimler does not have its own gas engines for Freightliner or Western Star. Also to continue for some time is the use of Eaton heavy-duty manual transmissions and some AMTs...
* Germany - Mercedes-Benz Unveils Large Trucks With 12-18% Reduction in Air Drag
(Photo: Air Drag is Such a Drag)
Stuttgart,Germany -Threehugger, by Michael Graham Richard -September 19, 2012: ... Aerodynamic improvements. Mercedes-Benz has just unveiled two new models - a trailer, picture on top of this post- that show how this can be done... This is achieved with a 18% reduction in air resistance. If such an improvement was spread to the millions of trailers around the world, the amount of fuel saved would add up to something quite significant. And the beauty of aerodynamic tweaks is that they can be combined with pretty much all other fuel-saving technologies... This is done by improving aerodynamics by approximately 12%...
* India - Tata Motors Launches Six Heavy-Truck Models
Fort,Mumbai,India -Dow Jones Newswires/Fox Business, by Anirban Chowdhury -September 17, 2012: -- Tata Motors Ltd. Monday launched six heavy trucks in the Indian market to push up sales in the commercial-vehicle segment which is facing weak demand... India's biggest commercial-vehicle maker by sales introduced a 37-ton truck, four models from its Prima range and a dump truck from its Construck range... The vehicles are priced between 2.6 million rupees ($48,193) and 2.9 million rupees... The company also introduced a telematics and fleet-management software called Tata FleetMan...Labels: truckmakers news worldwide
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