Tesla illustrated us some days ago with your intentions of approach other types of vehicles as are heavy trucks and buses. It is looking for other types of markets to launch its great ideas that have the objective of drawing another panorama in which clean energies are the bases to sustain our civilization.
But they have been ahead of the German company that has revealed the Mercedees-Benz Urban eTruck in Stuttgart, a heavy load truck fully electric with a weight capacity of 26 tonnes, making it the first large truck in its class. Quite a great initiative by this company to make things more difficult for Tesla.
As the name implies, it is designed for use in urban environments, which limits it in heavy loads, especially since its electrical autonomy allows it nothing more than to reach 200 kilometers. The Urban eTruck prototype is now ready for production, but it will not be until the beginning of the next decade that it begins with scale production and real use for everyone.
With this novelty, Daimler has hit the table well to show Tesla that batteries must be put to bring another electric heavy-duty truck that is capable of matching yours, although Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, will certainly not remain silent and will soon show what they have in hand.
This type of vehicle is perfect for urban use, not only for the reduction of polluting gases, but also for the minimal noise they make. You will already know how these heavy trucks, when they pass near us in an urban environment, tend to cause a great distortion for our ears.
What the German company does expect, that when they start with the large-scale production For the next decade, battery costs have been reduced by at least a factor of 2,5.