One of many first series-production battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros is for logistics service supplier Dachser. Karin Rådström, CEO of Mercedes-Benz Vans, personally handed over an eActros 300 to Stefan Hohm, Chief Growth Officer (CDO) and member of the Dachser Administration Board, at an occasion on the manufacturing facility in Value-am-Rhein. As a part of its local weather safety technique, Dachser is already planning to incorporate additional eActros in its automobile fleet. ” The usual eActros is a crucial a part of our DACHSER Emission-Free Supply idea, which we’re at the moment increasing to eleven European metropolitan areas. Defined Stefan Hohm on the event of the supply of a primary automobile, which is able to substitute the prototype in sensible checks since 2019 at Dachser in Stuttgart. ” The eActros has confirmed its usefulness in on a regular basis life in Stuttgart, particularly for the emission-free supply of palletized items to prospects. We additionally see some potential in shuttle visitors for the all-electric truck. We assume that the automobile will discover a variety of functions in sustainable items logistics. »
In Stuttgart, Dachser delivers common cargo with the eActros to its inner-city prospects, together with palletized consignments which can be too giant and too heavy for single-parcel transport. As well as, the electrical truck, mixed with a FUSO eCanter (7.5 tonnes), provides a downtown micro-hub with cargo, which is then distributed over the past mile by electric-assisted cargo bikes. All common cargo shipments inside an outlined space (DACHSER Emission-Free Supply) are delivered by Dachser, domestically with out CO2 and nitrogen oxide emissions. The eActros is barely charged with inexperienced electrical energy on the Dachser department in Kornwestheim.
For this utility, this “e-truck” was configured as a 4×2 provider with a SPIER dry physique. The 19-ton truck was produced simply in the beginning of sequence manufacturing final 12 months and was simply formally handed over at a gathering after federal funding was accepted. Dachser is among the chosen prospects who gained worthwhile expertise with the eActros prototype early on.
Karin Rådström, Member of the Board of Administrators of Daimler Truck Holding AG, accountable for the Europe and Latin America areas and the Mercedes-Benz Truck model: ” We’re very proud that an revolutionary logistics supplier like Dachser has opted for the eActros and trusts us by ordering a number of autos, together with our full service. Dachser has been an necessary associate through the growth of the eActros, from prototype to manufacturing automobile, and we stay up for persevering with our robust partnership with Dachser on the trail to zero-emission transport.. »
As much as 400 kilometers of vary
The eActros batteries can include three (eActros 300) or 4 battery packs (eActros 400), every with an put in capability of 112 kWh and a usable capability of roughly 97 kWh. Geared up with 4 battery packs, the eActros 400 can journey as much as 400 kilometres. The technological coronary heart of the electrical truck is its driveline, which consists of a inflexible electrical axle with two built-in electrical motors and a two-speed transmission. The 2 liquid-cooled motors present 330 kW steady energy and 400 kW peak energy. As well as, electrical power might be recovered by recuperation when driving foresight. The power recovered throughout braking is fed again into the batteries of the eActros and is then accessible once more to energy the automobile. eActros might be loaded with as much as 160 kW. On a traditional direct present quick charging station with a charging present of 400 A, it takes simply over an hour to cost the three battery packs from 20% to 80% of their capability.
Some great benefits of the battery truck from Mercedes-Benz
The 2 built-in electrical motors are extremely environment friendly and supply fixed energy with excessive beginning torque. The torque offered instantly by the electrical motors and the two-speed transmission assure highly effective acceleration, spectacular consolation and dynamics that permit for extra relaxed and fewer tense driving than that of a truck with a traditional diesel engine. As well as, the low heart of gravity improves cornering dealing with. The inside noise degree has been diminished by 10 dB – which corresponds roughly to a halving of the perceptible noise degree – which additionally contributes to elevated driver consolation beneath full load. Evening deliveries are additionally doable because of the low noise degree. In contrast to a diesel truck, there may be additionally a lot much less vibration.
The eActros with an aerodynamic SPIER physique
The physique of the Mercedes-Benz eActros from Dachser is equipped by SPIER. The Athlete dry transport crate from SPIER is an “aeroform” design. The profiles with steady edges and complex aerodynamics, mixed with the built-in roof spoiler, cut back the drag coefficient and thus improve the vary of your entire automobile. The physique combines a excessive payload with a big transport quantity. The construction is customized to the wants of the shopper, for instance with regard to the choices for securing the load.
Andreas Quick, Gross sales and Advertising and marketing Director of SPIER Fahrzeugwerk: “ SPIER helps rising the capabilities of autos with environmentally pleasant drive know-how by creating physique options. Reworking the Mercedes-Benz eActros into a whole and versatile automobile with the Athlet physique from SPIER corresponds to our mission. Our staff are skilled and authorized to work on alternatively powered autos. We welcome the challenges of different drives and thus the probabilities for a sustainable, ecological and economical future.. »
Engaging and handy service leasing provided by the Mercedes-Benz Financial institution Group
The autos are made accessible by the Mercedes-Benz Financial institution Group and its sensible ServiceLeasing and are backed by the “Local weather-friendly industrial autos” financing guideline of the German Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). Thanks to those subsidies, the Mercedes-Benz Financial institution Group is providing engaging service leasing charges for additional totally electrical eActros, which prospects can benefit from straight at Mercedes-Benz branches. This supply is proscribed and legitimate till the deliberate funds are exhausted, however on the newest for orders positioned till March 23, 2022, with supply till December 23, 2022.
Financing of electrical vans
Collection-produced eActros are funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport with 10.77 million euros beneath the directive for the promotion of sunshine and heavy industrial autos with different and climate-friendly drive and related refueling and recharging infrastructure (KsNI). Funding pointers are coordinated by the Nationwide Group for Hydrogen and Gas Cell Expertise (NOW GmbH), and functions are accepted by the Federal Workplace for Items Transport. Kurt-Christoph von Knobelsdorff, Managing Director of NOW GmbH: “ The funding helps the unfold of business autos with climate-friendly propulsion and thus contributes to lowering greenhouse gasoline emissions, bettering air high quality in cities and defending towards noise. I’m very comfortable that main logistics gamers are taking the initiative right here and getting concerned within the electrification of heavy items visitors.. »
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