Compare Electric Truck Tractor Units
for the UK market
Building artic’ trailers for the transport sector, we absolutely love trucks, and all the hype is currently around fully electric tractor cab units, whether you call them e-trucks, BEV trucks, EV trucks or whatever else. There are so many stats flying around out there on…
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…battery pack sizes, charging times, and range, so we thought we’d do our best to curate and maintain comparison tables so that road transport fleet operators can more easily compare the all-electric truck tractor units currently and soon available for the UK market, from the Mercedes-Benz Trucks (now Daimler Truck UK) eActros 600 and Volvo FH Electric, to the forthcoming DAF XF Electric, plus all the main electric rigid truck chassis out there. As a little disclaimer, our electric truck comparison tool isn’t perfect and not all the data will be accurate, partly because manufacturers themselves don’t always publish precise data, so please use it on an E&EO basis. Although you shouldn’t make your absolute final decisions based on this page, we’re truck geeks, though, and will try our best to keep it up to date and as accurate as possible – and we’ve converted kilometres to miles, to make it as easily digestible for UK haulage and logistics operators as possible.
COMPARING ELECTRIC (ZERO-EMISSIONS) TRUCKS & RIGIDS
We want our electric tractor cab and electric HGV chassis comparison table to be one of the most realistic tools out there for UK road transport, haulage and logistics operator fleets, so…
- Range quoted in MILES, not kilometres
- Electric motor power quoted in brake horsepower (BHP/HP/PS)
- Range quoted in SINGLE CHARGE *
Mercedes Daimler eActros 600
MAN eTGX
Volvo FH Electric (inc. Aero)
Renault Trucks E-Tech T
Scania Regional Tractor
DAF XF Electric
IVECO S-eWAY Battery Electric Vehicle
4x2
4x2
4×2, 6×2, 6x4
4x2, 6x2
4x2
4x2, 6x2
4x2
Power (peak)
804bhp
442bhp
450-666bhp
450-666bhp
367-611bhp
367-611bhp
652bhp
600kWh
320-480kWh
360-540kWh
540kWh
315-525kWh
312-468kWh
738kWh
310 miles
248 miles
186 miles
186 miles
186 miles
217 miles (40t loaded)
310 miles
400kW
750kW
250kW
250kW
375kW
325kW
350kW
20-80% in 1h (CCS)
0-100% in 45m (MCS)
0-100% in 2.5h
0-100% in 2.5h
0-80% in 45m
0-80% in 90m
Retrofittable
Equipped from launch
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Production late 2024, deliveries H1 2025
Available to order now
Already out - order now
Coming soon
Unknown
Undergoing UK trials
Unknown
Volvo Trucks FE Electric
Volvo Trucks FL Electric
Renault E-Tech D Electric
Renault E-Tech D Wide Electric
Scania Regional Rigid
Scania New Urban BEV
DAF XB Electric
DAF XD Electric
DAF XF Electric
MAN Trucks eTGX rigid
4×2, 6×2
4x2
4×2, 6×2, 6x4
4x2, 6x2
4x2
4x2, 6x2
4x2
Power (peak)
300bhp
175bhp
450-666bhp
450-666bhp
367-611bhp
367-611bhp
652bhp
600kWh
320-480kWh
360-540kWh
540kWh
315-525kWh
312-468kWh
738kWh
310 miles
248 miles
186 miles
186 miles
186 miles
217 miles (40t loaded)
310 miles
400kW
750kW
250kW
250kW
375kW
325kW
350kW
20-80% in 1h (CCS)
0-100% in 45m (MCS)
0-100% in 2.5h
0-100% in 2.5h
0-80% in 45m
0-80% in 90m
Retrofittable
Equipped from launch
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Not currently
Production late 2024, deliveries H1 2025
Available to order now
Already out - order now
Coming soon
Unknown
Undergoing UK trials
Unknown
* ignoring, for example MAN Truck & Bus UK quoting that the eTGX articulated tractor offers a realistic UK range of 800km (497 miles – just shy of 500) per day, as this includes a 45-minute driver break for charging. Our experience in driving electric cars has shown that public EV chargers at service stations are often broken or full with other vehicles, so it’s more realistic for road transport fleet operators and traffic planners to work on the basis that the driver won’t necessarily be able to find a charger, successfully connect, pay, start and complete partial charging within the required rest break in relation to driver hours.
We want this page to be a kind of wiki, so if you represent a truck manufacturer and would like us to correct any of the figures quoted in our electric tractor comparison tool, just ask us nicely and we’ll happily make the information up to date as soon as we can. Our marketing manager Olly is your man, on oliver.hammond@tigertrailers.co.uk
