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German logistics firm puts 30 electric semi trucks to work
DEFRU Logistik switched 30 trucks to electric power and put Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 semis to work in Germany.
The company’s managing partner, Hendrik Müller, says the trucks cover about 620 miles each day on highways.
Each truck can travel about 310 miles on a charge, so the fleet charges along the way or while goods are being loaded and unloaded.
The trucks move goods between ports and regional fulfillment centers, showing how electric semis can be used for regular freight routes.
The deployment challenges doubts about electric trucks’ range, while the company says the vehicles can save money compared with diesel trucks.
Mercedes-Benz offers the eActros in more than 40 configurations, and the fleet’s daily work demonstrates one way the trucks are being used.
DEFRU Logistik GmbH has switched 30 semi trucks to electric power, putting Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 trucks into service.
The trucks cover about 1,000 kilometres, or 620 miles, on German highways each day.
The deployment was announced by Benjamin Budick, a senior manager at Mercedes-Benz Trucks Dortmund & Haan.
The eActros 600 has a 621 kWh battery and can travel 500 kilometres per charge.
- Who
- DEFRU Logistik GmbH, a German logistics company, put 30 Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 trucks into service.
- What
- The company switched 30 semi trucks to electric power.
- When
- Over the course of the last year; the article was published on 9 November 2026.
- Where
- On German highways.
- Why
- Not stated
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Hendrik Müller transformed the company’s shipping fleet, switching 30 semi trucks to electric power.
The eActros 600 trucks went to work covering about 1,000 kilometres of German highways each day.
Benjamin Budick announced the successful deployment on LinkedIn.
- Fleet conversion
- 30 semi trucks switched to electric power
- Truck model
- Mercedes-Benz eActros 600
- Daily distance
- About 1,000 km (620 miles)
- Battery capacity
- 621 kWh
- Range per charge
- 500 km
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