The German city is expanding its truck fleet with 10 new, specially upfitted examples of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic heavy-duty EVs, bringing the city’s total count of battery-electric low-floor trucks to 34.
Deployed by FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs und Service GmbH, the leading municipal waste management and city cleaning company in Frankfurt am Main, the new Mercedes eEconic have been upfit with a number of different service bodies to perform distinct functions across different areas of the municipal waste management process. Daimler’s official press photos show a snow plow, a street sweeper, and more.
Despite the different bodies and build outs, each of the 10 new eEconic trucks features the same 3×112 kWh LFP battery packs for a combined 336 kWh installed capacity (~290 usable). Those batteries send power to Daimler’s first-generation electric powertrain, good for up to 536 peak hp.
More than enough, in other words, to power through Frankfurt’s snowy winter streets and haul whatever its residents can manage to hurl into a bin.
“We are pleased to continue our successful cooperation with FES with ten additional vehicles,” Christian Wilz, Chairman of the Management Board Mercedes-Benz Trucks. “I personally spent a day with FES in waste collection operations to gain insight into the daily demands placed on our vehicles – and I have to say, our eEconic performed significantly better than I did. Quiet, zero-emission in operation, and technically perfectly equipped with the bodies of our partners.”
FES’ trucks will be operated daily on routes that include Frankfurt’s city center, residential districts and suburbs, and the River Main pedestrian mall.
Electrek’s Take
We’ve had some laughs at Daimler’s expense when it comes to hydrogen – and while they earned every one of those, the company has also put in some solid work when it comes to electrification, pushing ahead with Rizon medium-duty trucks in North America and rolling out some big electric vocational and highway haul trucks in Europe, as well.
If they figure out that hydrogen isn’t going to happen quickly enough, they might still have a place in the electric future. They just need to hurry up and figure it out, before the Chinese leave them behind for good.
SOURCE | IMAGES: Daimler Trucks.
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