article thumbnail

Penske Truck Leasing and NFI Industries starting to test the first fully electric Freightliner trucks from end of 2018 onwards

Green Car Congress

In June, Daimler Trucks presented two new fully electric trucks from its US-subsidiary Freightliner. Daimler is the first manufacturer to test electrified trucks for all weight classes with customers until end of 2018. Earlier post.)

article thumbnail

Penske Truck Leasing and NFI Industries starting to test the first fully electric Freightliner trucks from end of 2018 onwards

Green Car Congress

In June, Daimler Trucks presented two new fully electric trucks from its US-subsidiary Freightliner. Daimler is the first manufacturer to test electrified trucks for all weight classes with customers until end of 2018. Earlier post.)

article thumbnail

Dachser to add 50 Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul electric trucks to fleet

Green Car Congress

The logistics service provider Dachser is planning to add 50 units of Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul ( earlier post ), presented at this year’s IAA Transportation, to its European fleet. In eleven European cities, battery electric vans and trucks deliver all consignments locally CO 2 -neutral as standard in a defined inner-city area.

Mercedes 243
article thumbnail

Daimler electric trucks & buses log more than 7M customer kilometers

Green Car Congress

For example, our locally CO 2 -neutral 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 trucks in terms of availability and performance as well.

Mercedes 293
article thumbnail

Mercedes-Benz unveils concept battery-electric van Concept EQV; production version later this year

Green Car Congress

Mercedes-Benz unveiled the first purely battery-electric people mover in the premium segment at the Geneva Motor Show. Mercedes-Benz Vans plans to release a series-production vehicle on the basis of the Concept EQV, to be presented to the public at this year’s Frankfurt Autoshow.

Concept 191
article thumbnail

MAN Truck & Bus exploring 2nd life, recycling strategies for traction batteries

Green Car Congress

The battery packs originate from the first field trial with battery-electric distribution trucks from MAN, which began in Austria in 2018 and lasted three years. At present, the recycling rate is more than 70% in relation to the weight of the battery. For this purpose, around 120 truck battery packs with an energy content of 18.6

Batteries 199
article thumbnail

Study suggests lithium and cobalt for batteries may face supply risks by 2050

Green Car Congress

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … For cobalt, the scenario-based demand analysis depicts a very different picture. —Vaalma et al.

Supplies 281