Mercedes F1 team deploys eActros 600 across European season
The eActros 600 will transport one of the team’s race trailers to all nine European races, covering approximately 15,000 kilometres between Monaco and Madrid over the next three months. The truck arrived in Monaco from Brackley on 1 June ahead of this weekend’s Grand Prix. It thus already covered its first 1,600 kilometres. During the season, the truck will transport operational infrastructure, including the communications office, as well as the doctor and physio rooms. The team says that logistics remain one of the most difficult areas of its carbon footprint to decarbonise.
The eActros 600 features a usable 600 kWh LFP battery and offers a minimum range of 500 kilometres per charge. It can charge from 20 to 80 per cent in around 25 minutes using a megawatt charging system (MCS).
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS states that the deployment builds on electric truck operations carried out during the 2025 season. This included a pilot journey to the British Grand Prix and the transport of the team’s W16 race cars from Brackley to Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix using electric power.
The deployment of the eActros 600 forms part of a broader sustainable logistics programme that also includes the use of HVO100 biofuel supplied with support from title and technical partner PETRONAS.
“We are realising our ambition of deploying the Mercedes-Benz Trucks eActros 600 across all nine European races, demonstrating our commitment to accelerating decarbonisation in some of the hardest-to-abate areas of our operations,” said Alice Ashpitel, Head of Sustainability at the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team. “As a team, we are committed to engineering change on and off the track, and it’s exciting to see how quickly we have moved from pilot journeys to a full rollout.”
Ash Armstrong, eConsultancy Manager at Daimler Truck UK, added: “We are proud to be pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in Formula One logistics once again. With the eActros 600 supporting the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team at all nine European races this season, this project is a powerful demonstration that long-haul electric transport is not a future ambition, it’s a reality today.”
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