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Daimler Truck celebrates the start of series production of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 for long-distance transport in Wörth

Karin Rådström, CEO of Daimler Truck, and Daniela Schmitt, Minister for Economic Affairs, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture of Rhineland-Palatinate, give the go-ahead for series production of the new model.

Green logistics

Emission-free e-truck for Siemens plant in Leipzig

Since the beginning of June, an e-truck has been transporting goods within a radius of 100 kilometers for Siemens Smart Infrastructure's Leipzig plant for low-voltage switchgear.

Commercial vehicles

400 autonomous heavy goods vehicles delivered to ZTO Express

Inceptio Technology, developer of autonomous driving technologies for heavy-duty trucks, has recently completed the delivery of 400 autonomous heavy-duty trucks equipped with Inceptio drives to the Chinese express service provider ZTO Express.

"DRivE" project partners complete successful test phase

The "Production Engineering of E-Mobility Components" (PEM) chair at RWTH Aachen University has successfully completed the pilot phase of the "DRivE" research project together with partners. In a two-month field trial, software was tested that is intended to enable reliable route planning in the transport sector with regard to ranges and charging points on board trucks with alternative drive systems.

Alternative drives

Twelve new electric trucks for the regular service business

Craiss Generation Logistik is investing in alternative drive systems: the logistics service provider is expanding its fleet with a total of twelve electric Mercedes trucks. In future, two eActros 300s will be on the road for the company in Austria and ten eActros 600s in Germany.

Alternative drives

Noerpel Group tests hydrogen trucks

On July 25, Noerpel started the test phase with a hydrogen truck at the Heidenheim site. After two weeks, the Noerpel Group draws a positive interim conclusion about the 18-ton truck in terms of performance and driving characteristics, but remains open to new technologies.

Load securing

New guidelines for lashing equipment, wheel chocks and vehicles

The revised VDI 2700 is expected to come into force on September 1 of this year. The guideline deals with load securing for cars and trucks on road vehicles.

Long-term rental offer

Hire heavy-duty commercial vehicles from Es-GE

Es-Ge Nutzfahrzeuge offers its customers optimized fleet management and rental solutions.

Hydrogen fuel cells

First 25 vehicles delivered to customers

The Paul Group has delivered the first 25 hydrogen fuel cell trucks from series production in Germany. The PH2P has a permissible total weight of 16 tons and offers a gross train weight of up to 24 tons, with a range of around 450 kilometers.