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Aiming to increase the safety of cyclists and pedestrians, and also facilitate the drivers’ work, Volvo Trucks is now introducing a range of new safety systems for its vehicles.

Last year, the number of heavy electric trucks on the roads in Europe and the United States grew faster than ever before. Volvo Trucks have now sold more than 4 300 electric trucks globally in more than 38 countries. In Europe, Volvo Trucks is the market leader with a 32% share of the market for heavy electric trucks, and in North America, nearly half of all heavy electric trucks registered in 2022 were Volvo trucks.

Volvo Trucks has supplied CEMEX with its first fully electric and zero exhaust emission heavy-duty concrete mixer truck. The battery electric truck is the latest development of an agreement signed between Volvo and CEMEX in 2021, on global collaboration in electromobility solutions to achieve reduced carbon emissions and improved productivity.

Technology is fundamental to modern road safety – and this is definitely true for Volvo Trucks, where a host of groundbreaking features have been developed over the years. Now, a whole new range of safety features have been unveiled which play an essential part in working towards Volvo’s “zero accidents” vision, with its aim of eliminating all accidents that involve a Volvo truck.

After achieving her dream to become a professional truck driver and start her own company, Iwona Blecharczyk from Poland landed the opportunity of a lifetime – to make an epic road-trip through Scandinavia in her favorite truck: a Volvo FH!

What happens if an electric truck crashes into another truck? Or skids and rolls over at high speed? Anna Wrige Berling, Safety Director at Volvo Trucks, tells us how the company’s electric trucks are engineered to be crashworthy.