Mercedes company plans to begin sales of the Urban eTruck heavy truck this year. Now about 20 clients are already interested in acquisition of the truck, completely working at electrodraft. Meanwhile the model takes the last tests and trials. Later from completion of sale of the Mercedes heavy truck start in native Germany, and then the innovation will begin to submit the markets of other European countries. Sales of heavy-Mercedes will start in native Germany after tests, and then the novelty will start to conquer the markets of other European countries.
Load-carrying capacity of Urban eTruck makes 12,5 tons, the complete mass of the car — 25 tons. It is noted that there is no direct competitors with a similar load capacity in the world at the moment. The heavy truck will be able to overcome distances about 200 kilometers long without additional recharge. Such power reserve is provided by accumulators with a capacity of 212 kW / h of 212 kWh.
The prototype of the truck was presented last year in Hanover.
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