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Progress report from Mercedes-Benz Trucks: eActros electric truck successfully tested by customers for over a year

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Progress report from Mercedes-Benz Trucks: eActros electric truck successfully tested by customers for over a year

Mercedes-Benz eActros undergoing real-world trials with customers since fall of 2018 Tens of thousands of kilometers driven and many new findings with the eActros "innovation fleet" Customer feedback and test results show: heavy-duty short-radius distribution already possible with local zero emissions and quiet operation Series production scheduled to start in 2021 Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services at…

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  • Mercedes-Benz eActros undergoing real-world trials with customers since fall of 2018
  • Tens of thousands of kilometers driven and many new findings with the eActros "innovation fleet"
  • Customer feedback and test results show: heavy-duty short-radius distribution already possible with local zero emissions and quiet operation
  • Series production scheduled to start in 2021
  • Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services at Mercedes-Benz Trucks: "We're on absolutely the right track with the concept behind the Mercedes-Benz eActros. For me, this is the key finding after more than a year of extremely intensive real-world trials with our battery-electric heavy-duty short-radius distribution truck."

Stuttgart/Wörth – The Mercedes-Benz eActros all-electric truck has been successfully undergoing tough real-world trials with customers for over a year now. As part of the eActros "innovation fleet", in the fall of 2018 Mercedes-Benz Trucks began to hand over a total of ten 18- and 25-tonne trucks to customers in Germany and Switzerland for testing under real-world conditions. The evaluation of tens of thousands of kilometers driven by customers as well as a close exchange with drivers, dispatchers and fleet managers have enabled the experts at Mercedes-Benz Trucks to gain numerous findings. These flow directly into the further development of the eActros toward series production, which is due to commence in 2021. Overall, the customer feedback and test results demonstrate that, with the Mercedes-Benz eActros, heavy-duty short-radius distribution is already possible with local zero emissions and quiet operation.

This week at a customer event in Wörth on Rhine, Mercedes-Benz Trucks presented a progress report on the "innovation fleet". In the next step, some ten further customers will each take delivery of a first-phase eActros for further trials of around one year's duration.

Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services at Mercedes-Benz Trucks: "We're absolutely on the right track with the concept behind the Mercedes-Benz eActros. For me, this is the key finding after more than a year of extremely intensive real-world trials with our battery-electric heavy-duty short-radius distribution truck. I'm extremely thankful to our customers, whose active support is making a highly valuable contribution on the road to series production of the vehicle."

Many new findings from real-world trials

One of the many new findings from the practical tests is that the range of up to 200-kilometer of the eActros is a realistic figure – regardless of payload, route or topography. In terms of availability and performance, the eActros is in no way inferior to a conventional diesel-engined truck in urban traffic, on freeways or in overland traffic. The cooling system for the cargo and the air-conditioning system – both electrically operated – functioned perfectly not only during this year's very hot summer but also at low winter temperatures. Drivers are very impressed by the continuously available torque across the entire speed range and particularly also by the vehicle's quiet operation and the pleasant, smooth driving experience. In addition, if the driver adopts an anticipatory driving style, electric energy can be recovered through recuperation, involving braking of the motors. This makes it seldom necessary to operate the brake pedal.

eActros used in completely different sectors and categories

All "innovation fleet" customers use the eActros for tasks, which would otherwise be carried out by conventional diesel vehicles – but in completely different sectors and categories. The spectrum ranges from groceries to building supplies and raw materials. The range of requirements means that the vehicles are fitted with a variety of bodies. The body variants range from refrigerated and box bodies to bulk goods and tarpaulin bodies. The customers and operating locations for the first phase of the "innovation fleet":

- Hermes (Friedewald/Hessen)
- TBS Transportbeton (Mannheim)
- Meyer-Logistik (Hamburg)
- EDEKA (Berlin)
- Rigterink (Flörsheim am Main)
- Dachser (Stuttgart)
- Pfenning Logistics (Mannheim)
- Camion Transport (St. Gallen)
- Migros (Zürich area)
- Nagel-Group (Hamburg)

The eActros: emission-free alternative for short-radius urban distribution

The eActros is based on the frame of the Mercedes-Benz Actros. However, the vehicle's architecture has been resolutely designed around an electric drive system and thus features a high percentage of vehicle-specific components. Two electric motors near the wheel hubs of the rear axle provide the drive, each delivering an output of 126 kW and 485 Nm maximum torque. Furthermore, the transmission ratio used sees this brought up to 11,000 Nm on each wheel. The drive power is therefore on par with a conventional truck. Lithium-ion batteries with 240 kWh capacity provide the eActros with the required energy. Depending on the available charging output, the batteries can be charged completely within as little as two hours (at 150 kW).

The development and testing of the heavy-duty electric truck in short-radius distribution operations is sponsored as part of the "Concept ELV²" project to varying degrees by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment (BMU) and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).

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Caption Mercedes-Benz eActros, Exterior, 2 x electric hub motor, 240 kW, 2x 485 Nm, wheel formula 6x2, M-cab, Range of up to 200 km with customary level of performance and payload.
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Caption Mercedes-Benz eActros, Exterior, 2 x electric hub motor, 240 kW, 2x 485 Nm, wheel formula 6x2, M-cab, Range of up to 200 km with customary level of performance and payload.
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Caption At the handover of the eActros in Switzerland (from left to right): Josef Jäger, Director Camion Transport AG; Wolfgang Schaupp, Mercedes-Benz Trucks Marketing, Market Intelligence, Daimler AG; Marco Grob, Head of Logistics Transport, Migros Cooperative, Zurich; Dalibor Dudic, Programme Management, e-mobility Trucks, Daimler AG; Jürg Lüthi, CEO Mercedes-Benz Trucks Schweiz AG
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Caption Martin Kehnen, Head of CharterWay Rental & Key Account Management Germany at Mercedes-Benz Trucks hands over the all-electric eActros to Markus Maurer, General Manager of Dachser’s branch in Kornwestheim.
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Caption Present at the Gasometer in Berlin-Schöneberg during the handover of the eActros to EDEKA (from left to right): Boris Billich, Member of the Board of Management for Sales at Schmitz Cargobull, Rolf Lange, Head of Corporate Communications at EDEKA's Headquarters, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, and Andreas von Wallfeld, Head of Marketing, Sales and Services for Mercedes-Benz Trucks
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Caption At the handover of the first eActros of the innovation fleet to Hermes (from left): Mathias Heinze, Key Account Manager at Merced es-Benz Trucks, Sven Klimpel, General Area Manager Kassel, Hermes Germany GmbH, Dennis Caldwell, Head of Fleet Management/Disposition in the Kassel Area, Hermes Germany GmbH, as well as Thomas Schmitt and Michael Albrecht, both also Key Account Managers at Mercedes-Benz Trucks.
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Caption Handing over the eActros to the innovation fleet at Meyer-Logistik. From left to right: Rene Rudelt, Sales Mercedes-Benz Trucks, Matthias Strehl, Managing Director Meyer-Logistik, Thomas Schmitt, Key Account Manager Mercedes-Benz Trucks, and Heinz Meyer, Managing Partner Meyer-Logistik
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Caption Nagel-Group in Hamburg goes electric – entire Mercedes-Benz eActros "Innovation fleet" now in practical testing
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Caption Dr Thomas Grobel, Head of Logistics Planning at the Mercedes-Benz Mannheim plant (left), hands over the fully electric eActros to Marie-Elizabeth Benois, Shareholder of the Pfenning Group, and Matthias Schadler, Managing Director of Pfenning Logistics.
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Caption Present at the handover of the eActros to Rigterink Logistikgruppe in Flörsheim am Main (from left to right): Norbert Bökamp, Head of Commercial Vehicle Sales at Beresa GmbH & Co. KG (Authorised Mercedes-Benz Trucks Dealer), Arne Rigterink, Managing Director of Rigterink Logistikgruppe, and Rico Claassen, Key Account Manager at Mercedes-Benz Trucks.
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Caption Practical trial of the eActros starts in Mannheim: Mercedes-Benz Trucks hands over the electric truck to TBS. From left to right: Volker Beer, Plant Manager Technology at TBS Transportbeton, Stephan Werner, Driver of the eActros at TBS Transportbeton, Claus Grimm, eActros Advanced Engineering Team at Daimler AG, Kai Dauenhauer, Plant Manager Sales at TBS Transportbeton, Joachim Gilles, Managing Director at TBS Transportbeton, Günther Schieder, Vehicle Supervisor for the eActros at Daimler AG, and Steffen Maier, Head of Customer Trials Trucks at Daimler AG.
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