Just a few months in the past, Volvo teamed up with Swedish metal producer SSAB to develop a sort of metal it may use for its automobiles that does not use fossil fuels. Now, the automaker has revealed what it says is the world’s first car product of fossil-free metal: A 4 wheeled absolutely electrical load service made for quarrying and mining. In addition to having no greenhouse fuel emission, it is also autonomous and may observe a pre-programmed route to move supplies at a job website.

SSAB produces fossil-free metal by changing the coal used in the course of the manufacturing course of with hydrogen from electrolysis. As Forbes notes, although, the entire car is not precisely fossil-free, because the metal used for its elements supplied by third-party suppliers, corresponding to its electrical motor, have been made utilizing conventional means. Still, Volvo Group CTO Lars Stenqvist advised the publication that “majority of the steel” within the car is fossil free. He stated three tons of the service’s 8.2-ton weight is product of inexperienced metal from SSAB, and people eight tons embody different heavy elements just like the car’s tires.

Volvo plans to start out a small-scale manufacturing for the car subsequent yr and to scale up manufacturing, relying on the provision of metal from SSAB. The Swedish producer is hoping to start out mass-producing its fossil-free metal in 2026, so we might even see extra Volvo automobiles made utilizing the fabric by that point.

Martin Lundstedt, President and CEO Volvo Group, stated in an announcement:

“This initiative with SSAB sets the benchmark for a fossil-free future. Just as the nations of the world come together at COP26 to address climate change, so too must organizations and industries work in collaboration to develop innovative new solutions for a greenhouse gas emission free future. Volvo Group is committed to pioneering partnerships such as this with SSAB to develop attractive, safe and efficient new vehicles and machines that pave the way for a more sustainable transport and infrastructure system adopted for the future.”