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26 November 2018 | AutoData LAUNCH » SCANIA TRUCKS ranteed by the aerodynamics of the new trucks added to the operators training. The propellers will also have new fe- atures: 220, 280, 320, 410 and 500 horse- power. Also, Brazil is receiving the global launch of the new540 horsepower engine. Another important launch is the 7-liter engine for the semi-heavy segment. In terms of alternative fuels the new generation comes with three new engi- nes powered by CNG/biomethane with 280, 340 and 410 horsepower. «We offer them here and now, in other words, the alternatives that are feasible for the ac- tual market moment», says Podgorski, anticipating that new trucks are already ready for electrification and automation when needed. But the truck is not the only the novelty of this launch. The new generation will start to be offered to the market in the TMA concept, Taylor Made for Application. There will be more than five hundred con- figurations for up to 38 transport applica- tions, with nineteen options in the cabins that, added to the new engine power, will make Scania one of the manufacturers with the biggest number of options in the heavy and semi-heavy trucks. At this moment, the last adjustments are being made at the factory to start the new trucks’ definitive production in the first days of February next year, the same month planned for the delivery of the first units - according to Scania, three hundred units have already been sold only in the first two days of the event. New trucks’ production has a new welding area inside the factory in São Bernardo do Campo, developed from the best precepts of the Industry 4.0