How will trucks change in the future? Taking the lead to less CO2

The transport industry is changing quickly, with new regulations and increasing demands on efficiency. As a market leader, DAF understands the importance of keeping up to date with change.

With increasing pressure to produce clean vehicles that minimise carbon emissions, as well as the constant strive to improve on vehicle efficiency. DAF is innovating its products to be ready for the future.

In the course of its 90-year heritage, DAF has developed many transport innovations, enabling new standards in efficiency, uptime, emissions, safety and driver comfort. Examples include turbo technology which DAF pioneered in the fifties, turbo-intercooling introduced by DAF as an industry-first in the early seventies and the current PACCAR MX-11 and MX-13 drivelines, operating at low engine rpms for industry-leading fuel efficiency and extremely quiet operation.

In 2015, DAF demonstrated truck platooning. The EcoTwin vehicle system enabled trailing vehicles to automatically follow the lead truck resulting in lower fuel consumption, reduced CO2-emissions and improved traffic flow. Due to EcoTwin’s success, DAF was selected to exclusively participate in English platooning trials in 2017. DAF is engaged with leading European technology development projects to gain comprehensive experience with alternative electric and hybrid power trains.

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