MAN eTruck Continues to Acquire 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 ‘Unique Early Fleet’ offered 
• Largest particular person order up to now: 100 eTrucks to Jacky Perrenot in France
• Gross sales to municipal clients are additionally rising
• MAN Government Board Member for Gross sales Friedrich Baumann: “Nice buyer curiosity – begin of gross sales has exceeded expectations”

“We’re persevering with to achieve momentum relating to electromobility. Our eTruck may be very properly obtained by our clients. The beginning of gross sales has exceeded our expectations,” stated Friedrich Baumann, Government Board Member for Gross sales and Buyer Options at MAN Truck & Bus on the IAA Business Automobiles pre-press convention on Tuesday in Frankfurt am Most 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 latest important enlargement of the portfolio: The brand new eTGX and eTGS have lately been configurable in additional than one million doable variants – with quite a lot of wheelbases, cabs, engine outputs, battery mixtures and business tools. “Since we offered the expanded portfolio at IFAT honest, buyer demand has elevated considerably, notably within the municipal sector,” continued Baumann.

For instance, MAN lately gained 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 subsequent 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 shall be produced this yr, is nearly offered out aside from a couple of remaining autos. A big proportion of the order inquiries and orders already relate to the autos which can be to be manufactured in large-scale manufacturing on the MAN plant in Munich from 2025. To this finish, the corporate will perform closing conversion work at its foremost manufacturing website this summer time as a way to “electrify” the plant.

MAN has simply obtained 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 shall be electrically powered by 2030.

Press launch from MAN Vehicles & Bus.