Soon the first battery-powered Mercedes truck
Daimler Truck, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of commercial vehicles, presented its path to sustainable transport on Sunday, ahead of the IAA Transportation 2024 fair in Hanover. The company’s focus was on the topics of decarbonization and digitalization.
Daimler Truck is showing the battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 electric truck as its most important product at this show. With its new e-feather, the manufacturer intends to decarbonize long-haul transport, which is responsible for two-thirds, and therefore for the largest part, of CO2 emissions in truck traffic.
A high battery capacity of more than 600 kilowatt hours and a new, particularly efficient electric drive axle developed in-house enable the eActros 600 to achieve a range of 500 kilometers without recharging. This range is achieved under very realistic conditions that reflect standard use with a 40 tonne tractor unit mass; this figure can also be significantly exceeded depending on the driving style and the route involved.
The Mercedes Benz eActros 600 will be able to travel much further than 1,000 kilometers per day.
This is made possible by topping up during statutory driver breaks – even without megawatt charging – provided charging facilities are available.
This summer, two pre-series production prototypes took part in a nearly seven-week test to demonstrate the operational performance of the eActros 600, traveling more than 15,000 kilometers through 22 European countries. It was the most extensive test in the history of Mercedes-Benz trucks. Each of the two e-trucks traveled with a trailer mass of 40 tonnes and exclusively used public charging stations. During the entire tour, the vehicles successfully demonstrated the high energy efficiency of the eActros 600 model: during the entire trip, the prototype equipped with special consumption measurement equipment managed to achieve an average consumption of 103 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers. Calculating the energy content of diesel, this would translate into a consumption of about 10 liters per 100 kilometers, which would be impossible to achieve with a conventionally powered truck. On the tour’s numerous daily stages, it would even theoretically be possible to achieve a range of more than 600 kilometers without recharging. On average, it was possible to cover about 25 percent of the consumed energy of the eActros 600 with recovered energy.
Depending on the route, topography and temperature, the daily consumption ranged between 85 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers – during the descent from Madrid to Bilbao (about 360 kilometers) in very good road and weather conditions – and 140 kilowatt hours per 100 kilometers from Alta to North Cape (about 240 kilometers) with the lowest temperature of 7 degrees Celsius, and where part of the road was unpaved. During the trip, about 30 journalists from 20 European countries, mostly behind the wheel, tested the operational performance of the second prototype – not only in terms of consumption, but also, for example, in terms of driving dynamics. Even with this vehicle, consumption was only about 6 percent higher on average. This means that the stated range of 500 kilometers on a single charge of the battery proved to be a realistic planning factor during the trip.
Daimler Truck marks the start of serial production of the eActros 600 model at the end of November at the Mercedes-Benz Vert plant. The first eActros 600 customer vehicles should be produced and registered before the end of 2024.
Source: vrelegume.rs
