MAN eTruck Continues to Gain Momentum

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• Simply seven months after the beginning of gross sales: Virtually 2,000 order inquiries and orders for the brand new eTruck
• Virtually all autos within the ‘Exclusive Early Fleet’ bought
• Largest particular person order up to now: 100 eTrucks to Jacky Perrenot in France
• Gross sales to municipal clients are additionally growing
• MAN Govt Board Member for Gross sales Friedrich Baumann: “Great customer interest – start of sales has exceeded expectations”

“We are continuing to gain momentum when it comes to electromobility. Our eTruck is very well received by our customers. The start of sales has exceeded our expectations,” stated Friedrich Baumann, Govt Board Member for Gross sales and Buyer Options at MAN Truck & Bus on the IAA Industrial Automobiles pre-press convention on Tuesday in Frankfurt am Important. There are already nearly 2,000 order inquiries and orders for the brand new MAN eTGX and MAN eTGS eTrucks round seven months after the beginning of gross sales.

Demand has gained further momentum from the current important enlargement of the portfolio: The brand new eTGX and eTGS have just lately been configurable in additional than 1,000,000 attainable variants – with quite a lot of wheelbases, cabs, engine outputs, battery mixtures and business gear. “Since we presented the expanded portfolio at IFAT fair, customer demand has increased significantly, particularly in the municipal sector,” continued Baumann.

For instance, MAN just lately received two tenders for electrically powered two-axle and three-axle vehicles in Austria. The client is an affiliation that features twelve municipal corporations. Over the following 4 years, this can end in an order potential of ten to fifteen MAN eTrucks per yr and a most of 45 autos in complete. Orders for the primary 5 eTrucks – together with for rubbish assortment autos — have already been positioned.

The primary particular sequence of the eTruck, which can be produced this yr, is nearly bought out aside from a couple of remaining autos. A big proportion of the order inquiries and orders already relate to the autos which might be to be manufactured in large-scale manufacturing on the MAN plant in Munich from 2025. To this finish, the corporate will perform remaining conversion work at its principal manufacturing web site this summer season to be able to “electrify” the plant.

MAN has simply acquired its largest single order up to now from France, the place Jacky Perrenot, France’s main grocery store freight forwarder, has simply ordered 100 eTrucks. MAN expects e-mobility to proceed to ramp up quickly and assumes that half of all new MAN vehicles delivered in Europe can be electrically powered by 2030.

Press launch from MAN Vehicles & Bus.