Scania wins European Green Truck Award

Scania’s R 500 has won this year’s Green Truck Award by a healthy margin. The German fuel test focuses on lowest fuel consumption over a set course and is conducted by journalists from two trade publications.

The truck that took the prize was one of Scania’s new generation trucks, with the updated 13-litre engine.

The Green Truck Award is a comparison test where the participating trucks have a GTW of 40 tonnes and are driven under monitored conditions on public roads between Munich and Nüremberg. The fuel consumption and the average speed are strictly controlled and potential differences in weather and traffic conditions are eliminated.

With an average fuel consumption of 24.92 litres/100km (4.01 km/litre) and an average speed of 79.91 km/h on the same 350km test route, the difference between Scania and the next best competitor was a healthy 0.4 litres/100km. Scania says that translated into a typical annual mileage for a long-distance truck of 150,000 kilometres, the difference would add up to 600 litres annually.

“The ‘Green truck Award’ is a unique comparison test since it has this total focus on what matters most to our customers from a cost and sustainability perspective,” said Wolfgang Buschan, Product Director, Long Haulage, Scania Trucks. “The fact that we won the award again this year is extremely flattering.”