Oct 15, 2021 - 12:25 pm
Futuricum’s specialised e-trucks now on roads
Four Swiss partners have joined forces to convert and operate two Futuricum electric trucks into special vehicles. The two examples feature an additional length of one metre, an increase of the payload by two tonnes and the expansion of the battery capacity to 900 kWh.
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Apr 26, 2021 - 12:01 pm
Volvo takes over majority of Designwerk
The Volvo Group has announced that it will acquire 60 per cent of the shares in Designwerk Technologies AG. The Swiss company offers electric vehicles under the Futuricum brand and also develops modular high-performance batteries and mobile charging technology for electric vehicles.
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Jan 19, 2021 - 01:46 pm
Futuricum delivers 3 concrete mixer e-trucks to Holcim
Designwerk has delivered three electric concrete mixer trucks to Holcim Switzerland under the Futuricum commercial vehicle brand. In the Futuricum Concrete 40E, both the drive motor and the mixing drums are fully electrically operated.
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Aug 25, 2020 - 04:16 pm
Designwerk & Daimler Trucks make low-entry e-truck
Designwerk has entered a partnership with Daimler Trucks and has included a low-entry chassis based on the Mercedes Econic in its own product range. The first vehicle of this type is to be delivered in the second quarter of next year.
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Jun 14, 2020 - 08:40 pm
DPD Switzerland gets electric truck with 680-kWh battery
From December DPD will be using an electric truck from Designwerk in Switzerland with a range of up to 760 kilometres. The 680 kWh battery on board is allegedly the largest truck battery in Europe and the first in the world to be used commercially in this form.
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Mar 29, 2020 - 01:01 pm
Liebherr presents all-electric truck mixers
The vehicle manufacturer Liebherr, in cooperation with Designwerk and ZF, have developed the first fully electric truck mixers with a drum holding ten or twelve cubic metres on a five-axle chassis. The first applications are planned for autumn 2020 at the customers Holcim and KIBAG in Switzerland.
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Jan 24, 2020 - 01:06 pm
Futuricum is building 12 electric garbage trucks for Basel
Following the decision by the City of Basel to purchase 20 electric refuse collection vehicles, the Swiss commercial vehicle maker Futuricum prevailed in a tender. The Designwerk brand will deliver the first twelve garbage trucks starting at the end of 2020.
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