MAN expands services for the eTruck
The truck and bus manufacturer wants to make 2025 the “Year of the eTruck.” Pre-series vehicles are currently still being delivered with near-series status, while the start of series production in Munich, Germany, is scheduled for the middle of the year. According to MAN, it has already received around 2,800 order enquiries and orders for the eTruck.
To make it easier for customers to switch from diesel to electric trucks, the company has expanded the MAN Transport Solutions team in recent years and trained around 100 “eMobility Champions” across Europe. They will advise customers on all aspects of introducing electric vehicles to companies’ fleets, including fleet planning and setting up charging infrastructure.
MAN’s eMobility experts have access to a new web tool that visualises various calculations, provides an overview of the existing public charging infrastructure, and helps plan the customer’s charging infrastructure. That way, MAN employees can determine what type of charging infrastructure is most suitable based on factors such as the number of eTrucks or the trucks’ average daily driving distance. Using satellite maps, the tool even shows how chargers can be arranged at the customer’s locations. The calculations can even take a new photovoltaic system into account, providing an estimate of the potential energy yield depending on the location and the impact on the customer’s kWh price.
MAN also has tools for public charging of electric trucks. Under the name MAN Charge&Go, the company will launch “a charging tariff that applies to the network of the same name” in May 2025. It will offer a card for authentication at the charging station. The company also provides a digital map that ” shows truck-compatible charging points that have been assessed according to strict MAN criteria.”
The map not only shows existing charging points, but also those that will open by the end of 2025. “By the end of this year, the truck-compatible charging points will total over 1,000 locations,” MAN points out. These include charging points from various providers, as well as from MAN itself. The company wants to set up around 80 public charging points at MAN service centres together with E.ON by the end of 2025.
Last but not least is MAN’s SmartRoute. The digital service is available to fleet managers and is embedded in the RIO Fleet Monitor. It actively supports them in route planning. Taking into account the battery charge level and the charging capacity of the respective charging station, “MAN SmartRoute always finds the ideal charging stops and thus creates the right route,” the manufacturer states. The service is part of the integrated digital package, which MAN eTGX and eTGS customers can use at no extra cost for the first five years.
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