Prestigious award MAN Truck & Bus

Newspaper Transport to the fourth time vrucica European award for sustainable development in industry-commercial vehicles

Newspaper Transport to the fourth time vrucica European award for sustainable development in the industry of commercial vehicles. Its owners are companies that manufacture commercial vehicles and successfully combining financial success with social responsibility and friendly environment. Course on sustainable development contribute to the further growth and prosperity. In this year the prize was awarded in 16 nominations. The company MAN won the award in the prestigious category of "Trucks" for the concept of electromobility. The idea is to create test all-electric trucks.

The company MAN Truck & Bus together with the Austrian Council for support logistics (СNL) is engaged in development and trial operation of freight cars running on electric. Its production is based on the plant MAN in the Austrian city of Steyr (Steyr). The first major test of 9 electric delivery trucks in everyday conditions is planned for early 2018.

By the end of 2018. it is expected to launch the first small-scale batch. Full-scale production of MAN eTruck will unfold in the beginning of 2021. Non-toxic and noisy delivery vans are designed to significantly improve the ecological situation in large cities.

By the regeneration of energy in MAN eTruck emissions of CO₂ are zero. The transition to electric commercial vehicles is particularly relevant for large cities, where there is an acute problem of air pollution and excessive noise. Moving on way from low emissions to zero emissions, transport companies and fleet owners are faced with several challenges beyond the scope of actual car. Therefore, the company MAN Truck & Bus attracted to the development of individual and the most cost efficient transport solutions large team of specialists In the range of tasks set for the team, in addition to the car was also on various issues related to infrastructure need energy and also with the development of maintenance concepts and the calculations of the fleet.

In the framework of its plan to transition to electromobility (eMobility Roadmap) in 2018 was MAN will present to the public a pre-production version of the bus on a battery power supply (BEV) and field trial test and demonstration fleet. Serial production of the bus run entirely on electricity, will begin in late 2019 years. Technical know-how in the field of electromobility derived from experience in the production of buses, subsequently you will find the application in electric truck eTruck. The success of the project eMobility MAN contributes to the belonging of the company to the Volkswagen group for the synergies created within the group, and the dynamics of development of the sector of passenger cars.

European transport award for sustainable the development was established by the paper Transport and publishing house HUSS in 2011 year. The prize is awarded once in two year each subsequent year. In this year's winners are a large automotive and logistics corporations, medium size enterprises and new firms.

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