Envisioning the future with 40-year-old toys

When R&D Project Manager Robert Sjödin was called into a one-on-one meeting with Scania CEO Henrik Henriksson, he wasn’t sure what to expect. It was June 2016. At the time, Robert Sjödin had recently begun working on a project to build a research demonstrator for a future city vehicle. This type of work is always ongoing at Scania Technical Centre; projects like this are designed to investigate different technologies that could possibly be used in a future vehicle. Just normal, everyday work at Scania R&D. So it came as some surprise to Robert when something far outside of the ordinary occurred - Scania CEO Henrik Henriksson asked to speak directly to him about his project in a one-on-one meeting. This short film tells the story of that meeting, and of how the vision of Scania NXT was born.