Various IVECO commercial vehicles, including the heavy-duty S-Way truck, will feature TomTom navigational technology, the companies announced this month.
The companies’ enhanced partnership seeks to provide real-time location data that helps optimize fleet deliveries, according to the announcement. That means vehicles like the S-Way will come equipped with the tech.
The contract also involves a new navigation and maps product that will roll out this year and next, starting with internal combustion engine vehicles, a TomTom spokesperson wrote in an email to Trucking Dive.
“By providing businesses with seamless access to up-to-date and precise location data, we enable enhanced navigation for fully electric, mixed, or gas-powered fleets to help optimize their activities,” Mike Schoofs, TomTom’s chief revenue officer, said in the release.
The partnership began over a decade ago and has featured integrations of the technology with IVECO electric vehicles.
IVECO, which stands for Industrial Vehicles Corp., no longer sells equipment in the U.S., but it’s been working with Santa Clara, California-based autonomous trucking and driving developer Plus on bringing AV technology to its S-Way. The pair has tested the platform in Europe.
The S-Way is already a “100% connected vehicle,” and the advanced connectivity with TomTom helps with efficiencies, navigation updates and routing accuracy, the company says.
The U.S. wants connected vehicles on national highways and most intersections by 2037 to help improve safety, efficiency and possibly e-tolling.
