Electric vehicles from Daimler Trucks & Buses prove their capabilities in customer use worldwide:
Electric vehicles from Daimler Trucks & Buses prove their capabilities in customer use worldwide: more than 7 millionkilometers driven
Battery-powered trucks and buses of the Mercedes-Benz, FUSO and Freightliner
brands are in intensive customer use worldwide
Positive customer feedback from trials confirms Daimler Trucks and Buses’
electrification strategy
Extensive findings from tests flow directly into the development of production vehicles
A vehicle portfolio with battery-electric series-produced vehicles is planned for the
main sales regions of Europe, North America and Japan by 2022
Electric city bus Mercedes-Benz eCitaro already in series production since 2018
Stuttgart / Kawasaki, Japan / Portland, USA – Daimler Trucks & Buses is celebrating another milestone on the road to the electrification of its vehicle portfolio: Customers worldwide have already covered more than seven million kilometers with battery-powered, locally CO2-neutral trucks and buses. Positive customer feedback and findings from intensive practical tests with electric trucks from Mercedes-Benz, FUSO and Freightliner show th at the electrification of road freight transport is already feasible today. In addition, the electric city bus Me rce des-Benz eCitaro is already in series production since 2018 and in customer use in various European cities. As pa rt of its electrification strategy, Daimler Trucks plans to offer electric vehicles in all its main sales regions by 2022: from the FUSO eCanter in the light-duty segment, the Freightliner eM2 in the medium-duty segment, and the Mercedes-Benz eActros and the Freightliner eCascadia in the heavy-duty segment.
Martin Daum, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler Truck AG and Member of the Board of Mana ge ment of Daimler AG: “As one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, we have the ambition to be the innovation and technology leader also with alternative drive systems. For example, our locally CO2-neu tral city bus eCitaro has been in series production since 2018 and electrifies public transport in many cities. With our electric trucks, we aim to offer our customers electric vehicles that are on a par with conventional truc ks in terms of availability and performance as well. This motivated us to place electric trucks in the hands of custom ers at an early stage. Thanks to our global presence, customers all over the world are testing various vehicle con cepts in diverse practical applications. This represents a strong competitive advantage. Thanks to the close dial og with our customers and the many test kilometers we have covered, important findings have been flowing directly into the series development of our electric trucks for several years now.”
Electric trucks with the star: the Mercedes-Benz eActros and eEconic
Mercedes-Benz Trucks was the world’s first manufacturer to present a heavy-duty electric truck at the IAA Com mercial Vehicles Show in 2016. With the all-electric eActros truck, Mercedes-Benz Trucks is demonstrating that heavy-duty distribution transport for urban areas can already be locally emission-free. The eActros, which has a range of approximately 200 kilometers, has been proving its worth as a locally CO2-neutral alternative for urb an distribution transport in a wide range of practical applications with various customers in Europe since 2018. Series production is scheduled to start in 2021. The first practical applications of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic lo w-floor truck, which is based on the eActros, were announced in 2020 and are planned for next year. Series pro duction isscheduled to start in 2022. The eEconic is mainly used as a waste-collection vehicle in urban waste-ma nagement. This is very suitable for battery-electric trucks due to the comparatively short and planned routes of about 100 km with a very high proportion of stop-and-go operation.
A pioneer in light distribution transport: a small series of the electric FUSO eCanter
The light-duty FUSO eCanter had its world premiere in September 2017 and is being delivered to numerous cu stomers worldwide. This all-electric light-duty truck is FUSO’s answer to the public need for locally emission-free trucks for light urban distribution traffic. As part of a small series, more than 170 FUSO eCanter light-duty trucks are already in use with numerous customers in Japan, the United States and Europe, and more of them will be handed over successively. The range of the 7.49-ton truck of 100 kilometers reliably covers the requ ire ments of customers in urban distribution transport. With a fast charger, the charging time can be reduced to ab out one and a half hours. The eCanter is produced in Kawasaki, Japan and in Tramagal, Portugal.
Daimler Trucks North America: customer trials with the Freightliner eCascadia and the eM2
In the United States, the heavy-duty eCascadia and the medium-duty eM2 were premiered in Portland in June 2018. Both electric trucks are currently undergoing practical tests with customers in the United States. The test fleet comprises 38 vehicles in a variety of applications including regional and local distribution, food distribution and parcel delivery. The vehicles have a target range for series production of up to 370 km (eM2) and up to 400 km Page 3 (eCascadia). Series production of the eCascadia is scheduled to start in mid-2022 and of the Freig ht liner eM2 in late 2022.
The first and only electric bus to be developed and manufactured in Germany
With the all-electric Mercedes-Benz eCitaro Daimler Buses has been offering a locally emission-free city bus for environmentally friendly public tran sport in cities and metropolitan areas since 2018. The eCitaro is based on the Citaro urban bus which has proven itself time and again. It is the first and only fully-electric urban bus to be dev eloped and manufactured in Germany. With its many features, from its elegant design to its exemplary the rmal management which minimises energy consumption and its friendly yet functional passenger compartment, the eCitaro is a truly impressive vehicle. The urban bus celebrated its world premiere as a solo vehicle two years ago.
Alternative drive systems at Daimler Trucks
Daimler Trucks has the ambition to offer only new vehicles that are CO2-neutral in tank-towheel operation by 2039 in Europe, Japan and North America. By the year 2022, the vehicle portfolio in the main sales regions of North America, Europe and Japan should already include series-produced vehicles with battery-electric drive. In the second half of the 2020s, Daimler Trucks plans to add electrically powered fuel-cell trucks running on liquid hydrogen to its series-production portfolio. The ultimate goal is CO2-neutral transport on the roads by 2050.
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Peter Smodej, +49 (0) 711 17 5 32 30, peter.smodej@daimler.com
Akim Enomoto, +49 (0) 711 17 4 65 79, akim.enomoto@daimler.com
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Daimler Trucks & Buses
Daimler Trucks & Buses is one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, with more than 35 pri mary locations arou nd the world and approximately 100,000 employees. The company brings seven vehicle br ands under one roof: Mercedes-Benz (light, medium and heavy trucks, city buses, overland buses and coaches) and Setra (overland, long-distance and premium coaces) are its European traditional brands; North American brands include Freightliner Trucks (in weight classes 5 to 8 serving a wide range of commercial vehicle appli cations), Western Star (heavy and long-haul heavy-duty trucks) and Thomas Built Buses (light to medium weight buses); and Asian brands BharatBenz, based in Chennai, India (9- to 55-ton trucks, medium- and heavyduty bu ses) and FUSO, headquartered in Japan (trucks and buses for Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America). Thus, Daimler Trucks & Buses offers its customers around the globe a broad portfolio of commercial vehicles, from minibuses to heavy trucks for specialized transport. In short: products and solutions for all who keep the world moving.
More than 120 years ago, Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz laid the foundation for the modern transport industry. Over the past decades, Daimler’s Truck and Bus divisions have consistently set standards for the entire transp ortation industry – in terms of safety, fuel efficiency and driver and passenger comfort. Now it’s time for the next evolutionary step: emission-free, automated and connected driving. Daimler Trucks & Buses is working to bring these important technologies to volume series production, across brands, divisions and regions. The company aims to take its vision of CO2-neutral transport and accident-free driving a major step closer and contribute to the sustainability of global goods and passenger transport. In 2019 Daimler Trucks & Buses delivered a total of around one-half million trucks and buses to customers. In 2019 sales for individual business units amounted to €40.2 billion at Daimler Trucks and €4.7 billion at Daimler Buses. EBIT came to €2.5 billion for Daimler Trucks and €283 million for Daimler Buses.
