Frankfurt expands commercial EV fleet with 10 new vocational trucks

The German city is expanding its truck fleet with 10 new, specially upfitted examples of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic heavy-duty EVs, bringing the city’s total count of battery-electric low-floor trucks to 34.

Deployed by FES Frankfurter Entsorgungs und Service GmbH, the leading municipal waste management and city cleaning company in Frankfurt am Main, the new Mercedes eEconic have been upfit with a number of different service bodies to perform distinct functions across different areas of the municipal waste management process. Daimler’s official press photos show a snow plow, a street sweeper, and more.

Despite the different bodies and build outs, each of the 10 new eEconic trucks features the same 3×112 kWh LFP battery packs for a combined 336 kWh installed capacity (~290 usable). Those batteries send power to Daimler’s first-generation electric powertrain, good for up to 536 peak hp.

More than enough, in other words, to power through Frankfurt’s snowy winter streets and haul whatever its residents can manage to hurl into a bin.