Lisbon consistently continues to opt for electric delivery vehicles. Daimler Trucks today hands over ten all-electric FUSO eCanter light trucks to the city council of the Portuguese capital. We recently had a major special report on mobility developments in Lisbon, which you can find here.

FUSO, the Japanese commercial vehicle subsidiary of the Daimler Group, is regarded as a pioneer in electric drives for trucks. As early as 2015, the Portuguese cities of Lisbon, Sintra and Porto were able to test the pre-production model Canter E-Cell in everyday transport operations.

The current FUSO eCanter has a range of around 100 km as a 7.5-ton truck. The city of Lisbon uses the vehicles for municipal journeys in horticulture and waste disposal. For these short distances, a range of 100 km is absolutely sufficient. With the FUSO eCanter, Lisbon wants to make a further contribution to reducing local noise and emissions from commercial vehicles in urban use.

The FUSO eCanter has been in use since 2017 in Tokyo, New York, Berlin, London, Amsterdam and Lisbon in six major cities worldwide.

The eCanter is technically very different from its predecessor and benefits from the extensive knowledge gained from customer trials with the second generation. In the cities mentioned above, test drives are usually used with logistics customers. These customer experiences will be used for the worldwide launch. Customers also benefit from lower technology costs for batteries and components.

The new eCanter uses a new permanent synchronous electric motor with an output of 185 kW and a torque of 380 Nm. The power is transmitted to the rear axle via an input gearbox as usual.

The FUSO eCanter is being built in Portugal
FUSO produces the eCanter for the European and US markets in series production at the Tramagal plant (Portugal) – on the same production line as the conventional Canter, one of the best-selling trucks in Daimler’s commercial vehicle portfolio. The FUSO production site Tramagal can look back on more than 50 years of tradition.

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