The new Iveco Z Truck is a futuristic, long-haul truck that debuted as a world premiere at the IAA in Hanover, the leading international event in the commercial vehicle industry.
The Italian design and engineering company ED has partnered with the CNH Innovation and Design Center teams, for the development and construction of the Iveco Z Truck, introducing new technological solutions, which will interpret future scenarios, but still preserving feasibility in both present and future scenarios. The cutting edge concept truck opens new frontiers of fully sustainable transportation, responding directly to the worlds’ needs.
The truck, with its impressive elegance, is the perfect answer to the rapid evolution of the commercial vehicle sector: it’s an advanced truck that features a completely redesigned cab, with modern architecture producing new attractive shapes, projected into the future, anticipating the way autonomous driving technology will change drivers’ lives. The truck was designed to be both a working environment for professionals and a relaxing environment for passengers who desire a friendly, flexible space, as if they were at home.
EDs’ designers, engineers, digital modelers, and physical modelers collaborated directly with Willkie’s CNH Innovation and Design Center team.
This important cooperation was all carried out in the brand new ED R&D Center in Rivoli. The entire modeling and prototype department, including all the offices and shops, is fitted with wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling, white marble, offering a futuristic “white-on-white” environment for the Iveco team to work in, along side the ED team. The whole project was developed and constructed in record time, from June to September.
ED Group top management together with Iveco Brand President, Pierre Lahutte (from the left: Pierre Lahutte; Francesco Aroldi, CEO of ED; Davide Pizzorno, President & Founder of ED and Roberto Colantuoni, ED Corporate Communication & Strategy Manager)
High quality craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail are the primary characteristics that make the ED prototype development team a center of excellence, representing the next generation of Italian design, which has influenced aesthetic trends in car design around the world for the past century.
“We are particularly proud of this project – said David Pizzorno, President and founder of ED – and we are very pleased to team up with a world leader in the commercial vehicle industry. This was a great opportunity to highlight our ability to seamlessly integrate our experts with our clients, working closely as a team, offering them a spectacular environment, which they consider a ‘home-away-from-home’. In addition, the development and construction of a vehicle of this size, has enabled us to successfully test our brand new facilities in the new ED Design Center in Rivoli (Turin), a next generation, high-tech center designed to develop innovative projects here in Piedmont, similar to those in Silicon Valley”.
