Alcoa Partners Renault Premium Lander 8×4 Concrete Mixer
Alcoa Wheels and Renault Trucks collaborated at April’s Intermat show in Paris, showing Renault’s new Premium Lander 8×4 extra-light concrete mixer presented exclusively with Alcoa’s wide base single wheels for drive axles. By converting this vehicle from twelve 22.5 x 9.00 aluminium wheels and corresponding tyres on all axles to four 22.5 x 9.00 wheels and four 22.5 x 17.00 Alcoa wheels and corresponding super single tyres on the drive axles, a total weight of 261 kg is saved, of which Alcoa wheels alone reportedly account for 196 kg.
Compared to a 4-axle vehicle on steel wheels in size 22.5 x 9.00, the weight saving by switching to aluminium wheels, including the four 22.5 x 17.00 wheels and corresponding tyres on the drive axles, is said to be as much as 475 kg.