March 28, 2024

Mercedes-Benz has printed some very encouraging potency information for its upcoming eSprinter electrical trucks, set to be in-built South Carolina later in 2023—and for the carbon footprint of the corporations they’ll be serving.

The automaker just lately performed a real-life cargo-delivery-van vary and potency run with the eSprinter, and it accomplished a 295-mile commute from Stuttgart to Munich and again on a unmarried fee, in addition to a third-party-verified potency of 21.9 kwh in keeping with 100 km for the pressure (greater than 2.8 miles in keeping with kwh).

Consistent with Mercedes-Benz, the pressure incorporated 264 kilos of shipment, and it took about 4.5 hours, with a mean velocity of 46 mph. At go back, the tool cluster confirmed a ultimate vary of about 12 miles and a ultimate 3% state of fee. 

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter range and efficiency test

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter vary and potency take a look at

That’s spectacular for a big van wearing a load at velocity—and albeit, it’s higher than we at Inexperienced Automotive Reviews have noticed in a long way smaller, extra aerodynamic EVs in one of these situation. The automaker nonetheless hasn’t disclosed the dimensions of the ones battery packs, however with simple arithmetic, that means a usable capability of round 107 kwh.

The take a look at, which used to be run on October 19, 2022, mimicked a real-life situation and lined a mixture of federal roads and motorways between the 2 towns, as could be lined through an categorical transport. And to maximum intently simulate a cargo-delivery scenario, it selected an extra-long eSprinter with a prime roof.

The consequences position the eSprinter in a fully other league than the Ford E-Transit, which Ford says achieves an EPA-cycle vary of 126 miles from its 68-kwh battery pack—and greater than Rivian’s EDV can do in a identical configuration.

Mercedes emphasizes that there wasn’t any gaming of the location to spice up the numbers. It didn’t optimize the topography to make the path extra stage—which means it incorporated a get started and end at 689 toes of elevation and a height altitude of two,575 toes. And tire pressures had been run as beneficial.

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter range and efficiency test

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter vary and potency take a look at

The corporate hasn’t but detailed the approaching trucks, which along with Düsseldorf are because of be made in Charleston, South Carolina, beginning in the second one part of 2023, with manufacturing sooner or later additionally headed to Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Mercedes disclosed again in 2020 that this upcoming rear-drive eSprinter would supply two frame sizes and 3 battery-pack choices for the U.S., however in lately’s unlock it mentioned that at release, the biggest of the ones 3 batteries might be introduced within the U.S. model. 

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter preview, April 2022

Mercedes-Benz eSprinter preview, April 2022

Those eSprinters gets modularized electrical pressure programs, as a part of a so-called Electrical Versatility Platform, that permit them to be constructed along fuel and diesel trucks. The corporate says that from 2025, all mid-size and bigger trucks that proceed in this structure might be absolutely electrical. 

Then, through mid-decade, comes a fully new van structure—known as Van.EA—that can sooner or later change all ultimate internal-combustion trucks and most likely proportion some attributes with the MB.EA platform for long term medium and massive passenger cars. One of the most websites for manufacturing of those trucks might be shared with Rivian