IAA Transportation '09.2022

May 22, 2023

Leinfelden-Echterdingen / Tramagal - More powerful, more efficient, longer range - plus a wide variety of applications and CO2-neutral in driving operation: This is the essence of the Next Generation eCanter from FUSO. Following its European premiere at the IAA Transportation in Hanover in September 2022, Daimler Truck subsidiary FUSO is celebrating the start of production of the all-electric light truck in Europe. The event at the Mitsubishi FUSO Europe ("MFTE") production plant in Tramagal, Portugal, brought together company representatives and guests of politics and business to celebrate the first Next Generation eCanter from European production running off the assembly line.

At the event, Karl Deppen and Arne Barden, CEO MFTE, proudly announced another impressive milestone for the Tramagal plant with the 250,000 FUSO Canter produced on site.

There are now over 550 FUSO eCanter in customer operation in Europe, Japan and the United States, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The total distance covered by the global eCanter fleet in all-electric and thus locally emission-free mode is now around eight million kilometers - equivalent to about 200 circumnavigations of the globe.

Production of the all-electric light truck already started in the first quarter at the sister plant in Kawasaki, Japan. Kawasaki delivers the FUSO Next Generation eCanter in Japan as well as in all other non-European markets worldwide. In Europe, sales of the FUSO Next Generation eCanter will initially start in 17 markets (France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Slovakia, Greece and Poland).

https://media.daimlertruck.com