Volvo announced new Volvo Concept Truck 2020

Volvo the Swedish commercial automobile manufacturer announced Volvo Concept Truck 2020 is closer to reality than one may expect.

The Volvo Concept Truck 2020 is a plan for a more environment and road friendly transporter. The truck features new technologies and an aerodynamic design to decrease fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. Our vision for the future is not that far away. Much of the technology in the Volvo Concept Truck 2020 is already available said in a statement by Volvo Trucks design director Rikard Orell.

The new technologies will be an auto pilot system, managed through a wireless connection which can take a group of trucks across the European continent at speeds of about 90 km/h or 56 mph, figuring a road train that will make truck traffic more efficient on Europe which is already busy highways.

The Concept Truck 2020 has rear view cameras that project an image onto the inside of the windscreen, LED headlamps and indicators and collision protection panels on trucks nose. The panel on dashboard with advanced touchpad screen like an iPhone providing the right information to the driver. As for comfort on those long hauls, the driver has the benefit of a fouton sofa in berth behind front seats which folds out into a bed to sleep at night.