The battery-electric truck transported an average of 12 tonnes of freight from the DHL Terminal in Hagen near Dortmund to the Mercedes-Benz plant in Kassel, 175km away without having to stop for charging.

The company successfully completed a week-long demo tour of both its battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 300 Tractor and its HFC Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck at Tyrol, in the Alps in Austria, at an altitude of 1,560 metres.

The joint venture, aptly named Greenlane, will design, develop, install, and operate a US-wide, EV public charging and hydrogen refuelling network.

The three million square metre plant is the company’s largest manufacturing site and employs just under 10,000 staff members manufacturing the Actros, Arocs, Atego, Econic, Unimog and Zetros models with a total capacity of 470 trucks per day.

The electric truck travelled a distance of over 3,000km in order to test and display its endurance under a raft of various climactic conditions to drive up interest before the vehicle goes into series production in September 2023.

DB Schenker has ordered 100 new battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros Long Haul trucks from Daimler Truck AG, which are set to be delivered by Q4 2024.  

To strengthen the Mercedes-Benz truck service and sales network in Western Germany, Daimler Truck has opened a new 6,200 square metre Commercial Vehicle (CV) centre in Haan. It includes a high-voltage work stations for BEVs and a new warehouse capable of stocking more than 10,000 spare parts.

These buses will be delivered in September 2023 and will operate in Germany’s Middle Franconia region.

The new generation Setra MultiClass 500 LE series comes in four models, ranging in length from 10.51 to 14.52 metres on two as well as three axles. Daimler states it has been designed for a wide range of applications, from peri-urban to long-distance inter-city transport in sparsely populated regions.

Daimler Truck’s aim is to replace legacy systems inherited from its former parent, Mercedes-Benz Group, with a new system which integrates workflows and product design across all of its brands.

The company has opened a dedicated 580 square metre electric bus training centre in Mannheim for its customers’ employees, offering a range of courses including, bus driver training and the vehicle maintenance of electric buses.

The new eCanter truck, which was first unveiled in 2022, replaces the first model which was launched originally in 2017 with several significant upgrades in between, including the incorporation of many advanced safety features.