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Watch: Discussing Freightliner electric truck eCascadia details

Jason Morgan
By Jason Morgan
Jason Morgan is the content director of Fleet Equipment. He has covered the trucking industry for more than 10 years, has a CDL and geeks out far too much over the latest truck equipment and technology.
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At a press event before CES, Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) Dr. Andreas Juretzka, Electric Mobility Trucks, discussed electric truck technology and strategy. DTNA announced the fully electric heavy-duty Class 8 Freightliner eCascadia and the medium-duty EM2 in June of 2018. Since then, DTNA delivered the first Innovation Fleet vehicle–an EM2–to Penske and put Fleet Equipment behind the wheel of the eCascadia. Watch the video above for a look at where DTNA has been and where it’s going when it comes to fully electric trucks.

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Click here to watch our fully electric Class 8 Freightliner eCascadia test drive.

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Black curtains surround the room that's segmented by rolling privacy screens, blocking off the business end of a European Volvo truck (is it an FH? An electric? It's hard to tell.) This is the only area trucking journalists from North America are allowed in. The rest of the building, named Lundby, high-tech center for research and development at Volvo Trucks headquarters in Gothenburg, Sweden, is off-limits. Even several of the Gothenburg-based Volvo Trucks employees that are presenting haven't been allowed in this building before. But what we're here to talk about is anything but a secret.

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