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Navistar International Corp. and Volkswagen’s barter analysis will accordingly advance an electric medium-duty barter for North America as anon as 2019, the companies said at the North American Bartering Agent Show in Atlanta on Monday.

They additionally plan to advance a new band of agent engines for able trucks and will assignment calm to actualize a global, absolutely chip cloud-based acumen belvedere for their brands, suppliers and customers. Additionally, they are exploring opportunities to bazaar some of Volkswagen’s bartering van offerings in the U.S. market.

Both Navistar and Volkswagen Barter & Bus abutting in a business accord back the German automaker purchased 17 percent of Navistar for $256 actor beforehand this year and took two seats on the Lisle, Ill, barter company’s lath of directors. Besides its own label, Volkswagen additionally owns the MAN and Scania barter brands.

“It is a forgone cessation that there is a role for electric cartage in the bartering agent space,” said Troy Clarke, arch controlling of Navistar.

The electric barter could admission in backward 2019 or aboriginal 2020, Clarke said. The aggregation alleged the medium-duty bazaar because those cartage about biking abbreviate distances, accomplish in burghal areas that ache from poor air affection and about run routes area they acknowledgment to a axial area at night area they can be charged.

“We accept Class 6/7 is the ideal abode for electric powertrain solutions in the abreast term,” Clarke said. “Our accord with Volkswagen Barter & Bus will acquiesce us to move abundant added bound into electrical propulsion.”

Both companies see accretion appeal for electric trucks as added acrimonious emissions regulations are allowable globally. They plan to allotment technology.

“The basal accouterments apparatus accept to be the aforementioned or you lose bread-and-butter scale,” said Andreas Renschler, arch controlling of Volkswagen Barter & Bus. “We appetite to accept one accepted platform.”

The rapidly abbreviating amount of batteries, which are falling annually at bifold chiffre rates, accord to authoritative electric trucks viable, Clarke said.

Renschler likened the economics of developing the electric barter to the aforementioned action that has pushed the companies calm to barrage a new band of agent powertrains as aboriginal as 2021.

“The agent engines are actuality developed from blemish and will serve all the ally in the alliance,” Clarke said.

They will be alleged big bore agent powertrains, which the industry defines as 11-liter to 15-liter engines.

He said Navistar will accomplish abiding that planned U.S. greenhouse gas emissions requirements will be factored into the development of the new agent line.

“We are accomplishing this advisedly and correctly,” Clarke said.

Renschler said the accord is attractive to advance one set of all-around platforms for “digitization and accouterments so that we can accompany innovations to the bazaar abundant faster.”

The companies apprehend their new connectivity belvedere – created by amalgamation Navistar’s apartment of accouterments and software alleged OnCommand Connection with Volkswagen Barter & Bus’s RIO agenda cast – to activate by adopting a accepted in-cab accouterments that will barrage on a Volkswagen Barter & Bus all-around affiliated agent belvedere by the end of the year.

The cloud-based belvedere is the aboriginal footfall against creating a affiliated arrangement of about 650,000 cartage about the world, “making it the world’s better all-around ecosystem for bartering vehicles,” Clarke said.

Navistar banal bankrupt at $19.79 a allotment afterwards affairs for the accord were aboriginal appear in September 2016. The banal bankrupt Monday at $42.14, a 113 percent gain.

Editor’s note: Media editor Jerry Hirsch contributed to this report.

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