Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG (Daimler Truck) has forayed into the Indian battery electric market with the all-electric, Next-Generation eCanter. The market launch of the all-electric eCanter in India demonstrates the company’s first step towards its larger vision to decarbonize its entire product portfolio in the long term. The all-electric eCanter, which marks DICV’s foray into India’s light-duty truck segment, will be launched in the market within the next 6 to 12 months.
From a global perspective, Daimler Truck is fully committed to the Paris Climate Protection Agreement. The pioneer of modern transportation wants to make CO2-neutral transport a worldwide success and contribute to combating of climate change. With a clear vision to decarbonize the transportation industry and reduce resource consumption, Daimler Truck is striving for its new trucks and buses to be CO2-neutral in Europe, Japan and USA by 2039, and globally by 2050. DICV is working on the readiness of a CO2-neutral product portfolio in line with Daimler Truck’s global decarbonization vision and the overall target for India as soon as possible following the aforementioned core markets.
DICV has a keen eye on how the Indian market shapes up over the years. The company’s CO2-neutral propulsion technology roadmap is being prepared in line with Daimler Truck’s global technology strategy with battery electric and hydrogen-based drive technologies. DICV has already developed a BharatBenz hydrogen fuel cell concept coach in alliance with a large Indian conglomerate.
