According to Electrive, the truck will be used to transport timber to an SCA terminal and a paper mill, with an initial trial run scheduled for this summer.

During the tests, researchers at the Skogforsk Research Institute will compare the battery-powered truck's performance to the diesel-powered ones.

If the tests prove to be successful, the electric trucks will be transporting timber for SCA.

The specially-designed electric truck was developed in a joint effort from Scania, SCA and the Skogforsk Research Institute.

Scania is looking forward to implement electric trucks for long distance hauls and other industrial applications.

One of the charging spots for the timber transporting truck is located at the Obbola paper mill and offers up to 180 kW of power.

According to the mill officials, the electric truck will help to "reduce the fossil elements in the transport chain of raw material to the mill."

The vehicle should make around six trips per day between the timber spot and the paper mill. One of these trips, which is 30 kilometers long, should take some 75 minutes, including loading and unloading cargo.

Some 55 tons of CO2 emissions could be saved per year using just one truck.

Fredrik Allard, Head of E-Mobility at Scania, said that "the 80-tonne battery-powered timber truck shows that even really heavy transport can be electrified. The partnership with SCA is an early show of what is possible, is a clear signal that it is possible to electrify even heavy transport."