MAN builds 1,300 electric trucks in first year

In its first year of electric truck series production at its Munich headquarters in Germany, MAN Truck & Bus has built around 1,300 electric models alongside diesel variants on a single mixed line.

Production is set to expand to Kraków in Poland, where the eTGL and eTGM will enter manufacture later this year.

The Munich plant assembles the MAN TGS and TGX in electric and diesel variants at a combined rate of around 100 trucks per day, regardless of drivetrain. Sustaining that dual-technology output has required qualifying more than 5,000 employees in high-voltage technology.

The Kraków launches will add the eTGL at 12 tonnes and the eTGM at 16-tonnes, giving MAN an electric portfolio spanning 12- to 50-tonnes. E-trucks with seven battery packs achieve a claimed range of up to 830km from a gross capacity of 623 kW/h, with packs produced in-house at Nuremberg.