Mercedes will release a limited edition heavy electrogrooving Urban eTruck Bashny.Net

Mercedes has announced that it will release a small series of electric Urban truck eTruck shown at the Commercial Vehicle Show in 2016.

After the world premiere in September 2016 at the International Commercial Vehicle Show, customer response has been outstanding. We currently have around 20 potential clients of the sectors of food products and logistics. A small test series in 2017 we will quickly take the next step on the path to small batch production for our new product. By 2020 we want to be on the market with the serial generation of electric vehicles. — said Stefan Buchner, head of Mercedes-Benz Trucks.





Trucks in variants of 18 and 25 tons will be produced in quantities of several dozen for customers in Germany. It is planned to send eTruck selected companies in the United States and Japan, he said. It is planned to make about 150 cars. Mercedes-Benz Urban eTruck, a fully electric car, based on a three-axle truck from Mercedes-Benz, in which the usual transmission was replaced with an electric drive rear axle with electric motors liquid cooling directly adjacent to the hubs. Their maximum capacity is 2 x 125 kW, while maximum torque is 2 x 500 N · m. In combination with a gear, the torque to the wheels reaches 11000 N · m. Power is supplied from a battery, consisting of three modules of lithium-ion batteries with a total capacity of 212 kW.





 

It allows you to have a cruising range of up to 200 km (124 miles), enough for a typical day of delivery. Depending on the desired range, the modular battery pack can be changed by adding or removing batteries. Urban eTruck can be connected to a charging station using a standardized in Europe, the combined charging system (CCS) connector 2 type. With a charging capacity of 100 kW, a fully discharged battery charges to 100% within two to three hours. (The system can support up to 150 kW.)you Urban eTruck also have electric drive. This also applies to the air compressor of the brake system and pump the power steering and the compressor of SIS All support komponentami air-conditioning. The cabin is heated by waste heat from the cooling system of the powertrain.

Daimler Trucks expects a gradual reduction of the cost of production of such vehicles and thus reduce their cost. Since the price of batteries for all-electric trucks, according to forecasts, will decrease by 2.5 times by 2025 from € 500 / kWh to € 200 / kWh At the same time, the energy density of available batteries in this period will increase by the same factor of 80 WH / kg to 200 WH / kg. published by P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©

Source: www.electromobile360.ru/2017/02/mercedes-urban-etruck.html