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98 October 2018 | AutoData EVENT » IAA COMMERCIAL VEHICLES By Márcio Stéfani, from Hannover ELECTRIC VEHICLES DOMINATE HANNOVER The International Exhibition of Commercial Vehicles presents what future will come from the trucks and buses fundamental for the creation of a free of fossil energy commercial transport system by 2050. And for this, the technical evolu- tion (especially regarding urban passenger transport) has to start now. Daimler was obviously one of the main attractions: it presented the Actros 2019, renamed as New Actros, equipped with sixty intelligent assistance systems which, according to the manufacturer, “anticipate the future”. Autonomous steering controls the entire vehicle, including its speed and route, there is active emergency braking and side view cameras that replace the mirrors and eliminate blind spots. Regarding vans, special attention for the Vision Urbanetic , which is already tested in partnershipwith Basf. A futuristic design allows total body change for cargo or pas- sengers with extreme easiness. I AA, the International Automobile Exhibi- tion of Commercial Vehicles, held every two years in Hannover, Germany, is the most important exhibition of trucks and buses in theworld. In its last edition, at the end of September, the event made the chosen theme clear, Driving Tomorrow. The event worked as a watershed for the European commercial vehicles market: the vast majority of automakers took advantage of the event to break up almost in a definite way with the past and show the world their electric or hy- brid vehicles - they should arrive to the continent’s streets at the beginning of next year already. The secret is very simple: according to the goals set by the UN Sustainable Development program and by the Paris Agreement, the electric vehicles will be