Daimler Truck on Tuesday unveiled the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600, the newest addition to its eActros household of electrical semi-trailer vehicles and the model with the present highest vary.

A latest take a look at demonstrated the truck finishing a 330-mile haul throughout the Alps with a gross weight of 80,000 kilos. Daimler Truck stated the eActros 600 can carry a most payload of 48,500 kilos utilizing a typical trailer. The truck’s most gross weight is 97,000 kilos.

With the truck charged throughout a compulsory driver break, the eActros 600 would be capable of full a 660-mile journey. Such a distance is akin to the vary of present diesel vehicles.

Daimler Truck additionally has 300 and 400 variations of the eActros that ship round 205 and 250 miles of vary, respectively. Tesla quotes a 500-mile vary for its Semi with a gross weight of 81,000 kilos.

2024 Mercedes-Benz eActros 600

The eActros 600 options three particular person battery packs with a mixed capability of 621 kwh. The batteries have lithium-iron-phosphate cells, and might be charged at charges of up as much as 400 kw utilizing a CCS charger. Just like the batteries within the Tesla Semi, the batteries within the eActros 600 additionally assist megawatt charging. In keeping with Daimler Truck, the batteries may very well be charged from 20-80% in about half-hour utilizing a megawatt charger.

Drive comes from two electrical motors designed to ship a steady output of 536 hp and a short lived peak of 804 hp. The motors are mounted on a single axle and join with a 4-speed computerized transmission. Two energy take-offs are discovered on the truck, one a mechanical take-off and the opposite an electrical take-off (AC or DC).

Daimler Truck stated the eActros 600 is designed to the identical sturdiness necessities of its diesel vehicles, which means homeowners can count on to cowl 745,000 miles over 10 years with out main points. After this era, the corporate expects the batteries to nonetheless ship round 80% of the unique vary.

2024 Mercedes-Benz eActros 600

Daimler Truck has additionally fitted the truck with a number of security options, together with sensors that give the truck a 270-degree view. These sensors present knowledge to digital driver-assist options like ahead and turning collision warning with computerized emergency braking and detection of pedestrians and cyclists. There’s additionally lane change help that screens the size of the trailer and may steer the truck again into its unique lane if the driving force fails to note a automotive within the adjoining lane.

Manufacturing of the eActros 600 begins in late 2024. Daimler Truck can also be testing an eActros prototype fitted with a hydrogen gasoline cell stack instead of the batteries. A latest take a look at noticed the hydrogen-electric truck cowl 650 miles with a single fill of hydrogen.

The eActros is marketed as a Mercedes however Daimler Truck has quite a few business car manufacturers in its portfolio. The corporate additionally controls the Freightliner, Western Star, Fuso, BharatBenz, and Rizon truck manufacturers, in addition to a number of bus manufacturers, and a few of these have their very own zero-emission choices.