Swedish vehicle manufacturer Scania's concept car NXT is used for urban transportation and uses carbon fiber products manufactured by Marstrom Composite. The car is the shape of Scania's urban transport vehicle in 2030, and represents Scania's outlook for the future. Scania NXT is purely electric, self-driving and has many uses.
The vehicle can realize the flexibility of switching between different tasks of morning and evening passenger commuting, day delivery and night garbage collection.
Marstrom Composite participated in the design process and accumulated rich experience in mold design and carbon fiber product manufacturing. Injection molding is carefully made by Marstrom. The product is made of carbon fiber in the form of prepreg and cured in a curing oven.
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I have to say that this is a bold innovation. Scania ’s engineers took the company ’s DNA-modular system to a whole new level and developed a concept car that could be transformed for different city operations.
Whether it is to achieve energy saving and emission reduction, or to ease the pressure on urban transportation, many cities have begun to gradually promote the transformation of urban transportation. As cities transition to sustainable transportation systems, advancements in technology and infrastructure for electrified and autonomous vehicles will become key drivers. "NXT is the vision of future urban transportation. Although some of these technologies are not yet fully mature, for us, the actual construction of a concept car is of great significance. It visually and technically demonstrates the ideas we can touch." Scan Nirik President and CEO Henrik Henriksson said, "NXT is specifically built for future scenarios in 2030 and beyond, but at the same time it also incorporates several existing advanced features."
The 8-meter long bus module is built as a composite unit, which greatly reduces the weight of the vehicle. The front and rear drive modules of NXT can be installed on bus bodies, city transport vehicles or garbage collection vehicles. Cylindrical batteries are placed under the floor, which not only makes use of the dead space of the space, but also helps better weight distribution. Based on the vehicle weight of less than 8 tons, the current battery range is estimated to be 245 kilometers.
"This is a new experience and new challenges that are different from the past, but flexible design and modular units are at the core of Scania." Robert Sjödin, NXT project manager, said, "Continuous improvement in small steps has always been Scania. Characteristics. We are now taking a big step towards the future. This car will provide us with valuable tangible data to continue to develop electric autonomous vehicles. "