As the excitement builds for the Brisbane Truck Show next week, here at PowerTorque, we decided to give you a little show taster about what it might be like.
The show in question in this video took place a couple of weeks back in the UK, but we can expect similar themes to emerge on May 18 in Brisbane. It’s all about alternative power and moving towards zero emissions, with lots of weird and wonderful players coming into the market with an interesting look and new ideas.
There will obviously be some truck unveiling at some point, as there must be at every truck show. Unveiled at the show was the Hydrogen Vehicle Systems 40-tonne technology demonstrator with a claimed range of 595km per refuel, with a refilling time of just 20 minutes.
As will be the case at the Brisbane Show, Iveco debuted its battery-electric eDaily, described as the electric twin of the traditional standard Daily.
An Iveco associate brand, Nikola displayed the pre-production Nikola Tre 4×2 battery-electric prime mover, as it did at the IAA truck event in Hanover last year. Iveco Australia have not indicated any plans to bring the brand here, as yet.
A lot of the talk at the show was around the new safety regulations for trucks and vans being introduced by the European Union, there are an array of new technologies being mandated including intelligent speed assistance, reversing detection, driver monitoring, event data recorders, and emergency stop signalling, plus blind-spot detection, collision warning, and tyre pressure monitoring.
A number of other topics, which we, in Australia, will have to face in the coming years, are already issues in the UK, with electric charging infrastructure one of the main talking points. There’s also much interest in AI and how this new field will flow into truck design and trucking operations.
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