Scania switches to bioethanol

Scania, a leading manufacturer of trucks and buses for heavy transport applications, and a producer of industrial and marine engines, is now focusing its efforts on reducing the environmental impact of its own operations. The company, which operates in about 100 countries, now uses renewable bioethanol as a fuel instead of fossil-based diesel fuel. With this change, Scania said it will reduce the climate impact of carbon dioxide emissions from its own goods transport services at its production facilities in Södertälje, Sweden, by as much as 70 %.
Scania spearheads use of bioethanol in transport services
The company now uses bioethanol in eight trucks and this will contribute to a decrease in CO2 emissions equivalent to that produced by 12 normal homes heated by fossil-based electrical energy. “As a supplier of transport solutions, it is important for us to take the lead in developing sustainable alternative solutions and demonstrate how sustainability and efficiency are linked in practice,” said Anders Nielsen, Scania’s head of Production and Logistics. Scania also offers a series of products and services that are climate and energy efficient. Ecolution by Scania helps transport companies reduce their carbon dioxide emissions while maximizing revenue from their truck and bus operations. Ecolution by Scania is a comprehensive package that includes optimizing vehicles that run on bioethanol, driver training and continuous supervision of both vehicles and drivers. “By switching to ethanol, Scania is demonstrating that sustainable solutions can be achieved – here and now – with technology that is already available today,” Nielsen explained. (March 2, 2012)