Last Tuesday, a 100% electric tractor-trailer hit German roads for the first time. It was precisely in Munich that this large vehicle created by a well-known European manufacturer could be seen how is bmw, the company behind the project.
The truck of 40 tons has a range of almost 100 kilometers per load, which takes three or four hours. In its first deployment, it will be responsible for transporting vehicle components between a destination of less than 3 kilometers through Munich 7 times a day.
Developed by the BMW Group and SCHERM group, a German automotive service provider, this truck is a model from the Dutch manufacturer Terberg. According to the companies themselves, the truck is "CO2 free, silent and does not generate any pollution". They also mention that compared to a diesel truck, the electric one saves 11,8 tons of carbon dioxide per year.
This new electric truck from BMW It could be the one that paves the way for innovation for this type of large vehicle among which we can find garbage trucks and buses. Something necessary to reduce pollution and send CO2 into the atmosphere.
BMW mentions how with this project will be able to collect enough information for the possibilities of electric trucks in the future for the logistics of cities.
Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation take 27 percent of the totals in the United States, while in the European Union they are a quarter of the total. In both regions, emissions from transport are the second largest source of greenhouse gas emissions after energy production.
An ideal world if it is achieved These trucks are all electric although there are several pitfalls in energy efficiency. There is already a project to reduce base models by 50 percent from the United States.