Dsv and Volvo test battery-powered trucks in Milan, -50% CO2 – Sustainable Mobility

Dsv Italia Road (Dsv group) has concluded a trial phase with Volvo Trucks Italia on battery-powered vehicles (BEV) for distribution operations in the Milan area. This was announced by the road transport company which achieved “a 50% reduction in Co2, fully in line with the set targets”. The operation – comments the vice president of Dsv Road Soeren Krejberg Hansen – represents an ambitious and important step to gather valuable data and experience that will allow us to improve future implementation and ensure a sustainable route for us and our customers”. and Volvo Trucks allowed Dsv Road “to lay the foundations for creating an intelligent, ecological and integrated transport system to achieve our global goal of zero emissions in our operations by 2050 the DSV group plans to use “more than 300 battery-powered”. vehicles between 2024 and 2025, and reach 2 thousand units by 2030.” The further goal is to establish “other low and zero emission vehicles as well as vehicles that use HVO fuel (hydrotreated vegetable oil). “We look with determination to 2030 – emphasizes the managing director of Volvo Trucks Italy Giovanni Dattoli – the year in which we aim to halve our CO2 emissions”. “A big goal – he explains – that requires the adoption of various innovative technologies, including biogas and HVO”. “But the real heart of our strategy – he concludes – is electromobility, we know that tomorrow we will also have hydrogen fuel cells”.

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