Stuttgart, Germany: Mercedes-Benz Trucks expects to trial its E-Actros LongHaul soon with prototypes now truck built for testing.
Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK is taking orders for electric right-hand drive E-Actros variants at 19 and 27 tonnes gross.
The E-Actros LongHaul, with a range of around 500 kilometres on one battery charge, is scheduled to be ready for series production in 2024.
The first prototypes of the 40-tonne truck are already undergoing internal tests and Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ engineers are planning to start trials of the e-truck on public roads this year.
The E-Actros LongHaul will enable high-performance charging – so-called “megawatt charging”. Mercedes-Benz Trucks is also preparing additional variants of the E-Actros – specifically the 300 and 400. Mercedes-Benz Trucks aim is to increase the share of locally CO2-neutral new vehicles in Europe to more than half by 2030.
Mercedes-Benz Trucks UK is taking orders for electric right-hand drive E-Actros variants at 19 and 27 tonnes gross
Mercedes-Benz Trucks is staging an enent in early June at its Wörth plant to introduce European truck customers to its electric trucks. Experts from Mercedes-Benz Trucks will inform a total of some 1,000 participants on the central aspects of e-mobility, from infrastructure and services to electric models. In addition, customers will have the opportunity to drive the eActros 300 on demanding routes and with realistic payloads, Mercedes-Benz says.
Karin Rådström, chief executive, Mercedes-Benz Trucks, said: “The tremendous interest in our eActros driving event in Wörth is further proof of the popularity e-mobility is already gaining with customers. Customers are thus sending a strong signal to all stakeholders to combine efforts and quickly put more and more electric trucks on the road, expand the charging infrastructure and create cost parity.”
