Mercedes To Test Long Haul Electric Trucks With Help Of Amazon

Mercedes introduced right now that it has signed letters of intent with Rhenus, a European logistics corporation, and Amazon, the American e-commerce company, to test the eActros LongHaul electric truck in real-entire world problems starting as early as 2023.

“As with all our e-vans, we will count on early functional exams with customers for our eActros LongHaul,” Michael Scheib, Head of Item Management, Mercedes-Benz Vehicles. “By accomplishing so, our engineers will be able to integrate worthwhile understanding received from authentic-environment operations—especially with regard to significant-overall performance charging—directly into the progress of the sequence-production automobile. We are quite delighted with the prepared partnerships with Amazon and Rhenus.”

With a array of about 311 miles (500 km) the eActros LongHaul truck will be tested in numerous purposes by Rhenus. The testing will incorporate towing shipping and delivery containers and tarpaulin trailers to verify the suitability of the truck to each day operations.

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Mercedes suggests that it is previously subjecting the truck to intensive screening and that it will start out driving the truck on community streets this year. A “concept prototype,” meanwhile, will be highlighted at the IAA Transportation demonstrate in Hanover this thirty day period, as element of the automaker’s screen.

Rhenus and Amazon, meanwhile, will also be screening the vehicles, as nicely as substantial-overall performance chargers that serve the wants of the massive vehicles. Termed “megawatt charging,” The businesses strategy to set up a test challenge known as “High-general performance charging for long-haul trucking,” which it abbreviates as HoLa.

As section of the challenge, charging stations will very first be set up at a range of areas alongside the A2 freeway, amongst Berlin and the North Rhine-Westphalia. A range of them will be outfitted with megawatt chargers that can get the truck from 20 to 80 per cent demand in just 30 minutes, fewer than the 45 minute crack that truck motorists are entitled to in Europe.

“If we want to use substantially greater numbers of e-vehicles nationwide in Germany in the long run and, above all, over lengthier distances, we will have to use every charging different,” claimed Sascha Hähnke, the handling director of Rhenus Transport. “Of class, this incorporates superior-overall performance charging on the road and, ideally, during the statutory relaxation periods. This is the only way to achieve ideal truck capability utilization.”

By working alongside one another, the providers hope to build a standardized charging infrastructure for vans. Feedback from drivers, in the meantime, will be gathered on a regular basis in the type of interviews and questionnaires in buy to help further more build the truck.