Conservative party leader David Cameron visited Scania’s headquarters in Södertälje yesterday, together with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. There he met Scania president and CEO Leif Östling, and discussed transport-related issues such as alternative fuels.
Cameron was given the opportunity to test drive a selection of trucks and buses at the Scania DemoCentre, and drove an ethanol-fuelled bus.
Östling described the firm’s
environmental work: “Between 1970 and 2000, we halved carbon dioxide emissions per tonne-kilometre from our vehicles. By 2020 we will have done so again”.
Cameron thanked him for the visit, saying: “Scania is absolutely right: We face big environmental challenges and business very often has the answer in terms of technology and research.”
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