VOLVO VERA

Volvo trucks’ autonomous vehicle, Vera, has secured its first mission to transport goods from a logistics centre to a port terminal in Gothenburg, sweden. Team CV

Breaking cover in September 2018, Volvo Trucks’ Vera is set to perform its first task of transporting goods from a logistics center to a port terminal in Gothenburg, Sweden. To perform for ferry and logistics company DFDS, Vera’s assignment follows that of the Einride T-Pod’s assignment in Sweden to ferry goods over short distances in an autonomous, cables, and connected form. The first such vehicle to come out of Volvo Trucks, Vera is electric, connected, and autonomous. It is engineered to transport large volumes of goods with high precision over short distances, aptly highlighting its design intent of performing repetitive assignments in logistics centers, factories and ports with the maximum speed limited to 40 kmph. After the acquisition of Vera’s first assignment, Mikael Karlsson, Vice President, Autonomous Solutions, Volvo Trucks, expressed, “Now we have an opportunity to implement Vera in an ideal setting and further develop her potential for other similar operations.”