Semcon expertise support new electric delivery truck
Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus in Brazil is now launching its new electric delivery truck. As engineering partner, Semcon Brazil has contributed with expertise in electrification, product and test engineering and structural analyses to get the truck ready for the market.Brazil is one of the world’s most densely populated countries, with huge challenges when it comes to infrastructure and mobility. Electric vehicles make out an important step in decreasing air pollution and noise in the country’s largest cities.
In 2019 Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus initated an e-Mobility consortium
Why should connecting a trailer be such a hassle? So much so, in fact, that 50 per cent of people prefer not to bother at all. And why have towbars looked more or less the same since 1932? Technology company Semcon put together a team of women to provide more perspectives on product development, resulting in a new automatic concept where cars and trailers connect themselves together without the driver leaving the car.Last spring, Semcon asked people for examples of products that were lacking women’s perspectives – and received more than 500 suggestions. A number of them mentioned how