The electric wood chip truck is on the road in the TREE project and is a so-called HCT vehicle that is 33.5 meters long and weighs 94 tons when fully loaded. The load capacity is 36 percent greater than that of a conventional wood chip truck.
Photo: LBC Frakt Värmland
The electric wood chip truck is now rolling in the TREE project, which is led by the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden. The wood chip truck from Scania is 33 metres long and weighs 94 tonnes fully loaded. It is owned by LBC Frakt Värmland and is operated for Stora Enso.
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The electric wood chip truck truck will transport chips from regional sawmills to Stora Enso’s paperboard mill in Skoghall outside Karlstad. It was premiered on March 26 for the media and other stakeholders when Laddbolaget, one of 23 partners in TREE, inaugurated its new charging park at the mill.
At the same time, LBC Frakt and Stora Enso showed four more electric trucks, all of which are part of TREE. With the charging park, five trucks and TREE participant BEV-r’s tools for optimising routes and charging, there is now a ready-made demo site with Skoghall Mill as a hub. It is the first of a total of seven demo sites that are being built within the framework of TREE.
“Now it will be possible for us in the project to test, measure and follow up on how the system works. It will be very exciting to follow the development on the demo site here in Skoghall,” says David Fridner, researcher at the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, who represented TREE during the system tour.
David Fridner, Forestry Research Institute, talks about TREE.
Multiple vehicles
In addition to the 94-tonne truck and the charging park, four more fully lexical vehicles were shown:
- the world’s only second timber truck with a crane (owned by Virkeslogistik Mellansverige)
- a wood chip truck (LBC)
- a car for transporting cardboard rolls (LBC)
- a platform hooklift truck for transporting residual products inside the gates of Skoghall Mill (LBC)
Together, the five cars are estimated to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1,000 tonnes per year compared to if they had run on diesel. The vehicles are part of a fleet of a total of 12 vehicles in TREE, all of which have different assignments to solve in the forest industry. The vehicles are manufactured by Scania. The ambition of the TREE project is to get closer to electrifying the entire forest industry’s need for domestic transport.
More cargo and less emissions
An important part of reducing emissions from freight transport is to be able to load as much as possible on each transport. That is why the new and completely unique 94-tonne truck is particularly important for the transition. It is probably the world’s heaviest and longest electric truck that is allowed to operate on the public road network, and it has room to carry 36 percent more load than a normal truck.
“The electric wood chip truck is a unique vehicle that challenges and streamlines truck transport to a new level that has not previously existed in the electrified truck fleet. Finding fossil-free transport solutions for the forest industry’s freight transport means that there is great potential for emission reductions and reduced environmental impact,” says Jörgen Olofsson, Development Manager Transport at Stora Enso Forest.
Electric trucks in a row at the new charging park in Skoghall, which was shown to about 100 invited guests. The charging park was inaugurated by Georg Andrén, County Governor of Värmland County.
Facts TREE (transition to efficient, electrified forestry transport)
- Budget: SEK 157 million
- Funding: Vinnova via FFI (Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation) and the project’s partners
- Time period: 2024–2026
- Overall goal: By 2030, half of all newly purchased trucks in the forest industry will be electrically powered.
- Project coordinator: Skogforsk
- Partners: 23 players from the forest industry, logistics companies, vehicle manufacturers, technology and logistics suppliers and research actors: Skogforsk, Scania, Stora Enso, Sveaskog, Södra, SCA, Holmen, Closer, LBC Frakt Värmland, Dalafrakt, Timber Logistics Central Sweden, VSV Unite, Alltransport Östergötland, OP Höglunds, Laddbolaget, Milence, Edri, Gito, Zelk Energy, bev_r, Biometria, Linköping University and KTH. The project is carried out with support from the Strategic Vehicle Research and Innovation programme, FFI, Vinnova.
“TREE is a system demonstration that will show that a large-scale shift from diesel to electricity is possible and how it affects working methods, route planning and business models”
Anna Pernestål, Skogforsk, project manager TREE.
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