VW subsidiary MAN relies on purely electric trucks for long-distance journeys

Berlin Nobody doubts about electric cars anymore. By the end of the decade at the latest, electric drives will have decisively replaced diesel and petrol engines. But truck manufacturers are also doing more and more: truck manufacturers are becoming more and more convinced that electric drives will also prevail in the commercial vehicle sector.

In Germany, the Volkswagen subsidiary MAN in particular is driving the start of sales of large and heavy trucks with complete battery drives, which are also to be used on long-distance routes in the future. In two years, the Munich truck manufacturer wants to sell the first 200 of these purely electric trucks. In 2025 it should be up to 2500.

“We are electrifying the commercial vehicle industry, we are ready,” said MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp at the presentation of the first all-electric prototype in Berlin. With this truck, a range of between 600 and 800 kilometers is possible. With future battery generations, ranges of up to 1000 kilometers would be possible in the second half of the current decade.