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- Simply seven months after the beginning of gross sales: Nearly 2,000 order inquiries and orders for the brand new eTruck
- Nearly all automobiles within the ‘Exclusive Early Fleet’ bought
- Largest particular person order so far: 100 eTrucks to Jacky Perrenot in France
- Gross sales to municipal prospects are additionally rising
- MAN Government 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, Government 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 extra momentum from the current vital growth of the portfolio: The brand new eTGX and eTGS have not too long ago been configurable in additional than 1,000,000 doable variants – with quite a lot of wheelbases, cabs, engine outputs, battery mixtures and trade 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 not too long ago gained two tenders for electrically powered two-axle and three-axle vehicles in Austria. The shopper is an affiliation that features twelve municipal firms. 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 automobiles in whole. Orders for the primary 5 eTrucks – together with for rubbish assortment automobiles — have already been positioned.
The primary particular sequence of the eTruck, which shall be produced this yr, is nearly bought out aside from just a few remaining automobiles. A big proportion of the order inquiries and orders already relate to the automobiles which are to be manufactured in large-scale manufacturing on the MAN plant in Munich from 2025. To this finish, the corporate will perform last conversion work at its most important manufacturing web site this summer season as a way to “electrify” the plant.
MAN has simply acquired its largest single order so far 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 Vans & Bus.
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