Hungary's First Electric Container Truck in Service

Hungary's first electrically powered container truck rolled out of the METRANS railway terminal in Csepel in southern Budapest this Thursday.

According to a press release sent to the state news agency MTI, the environmentally friendly DAF e-camion belongs to the fleet of WIN Capital Ltd., the road transport partner of the METRANS Group, which is engaged in container rail transport.

The new electric truck will be the first in Hungary to enable a fully carbon-neutral form of combined road-rail transport of containerized goods, the statement said.

The new electric truck has a range of about 200 kilometers even at full load. The on-board charger charges the batteries to 100% in five hours at 400 volts, 64 amps DC – with the use of a fast charger reducing the charging time to two hours.

METRANS Group, the intermodal (rail-road combined transport) subsidiary of the German company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA), is present in more than ten countries, with its first own container terminal in Hungary opened in Csepel in 2017 and the foundation stone for its next terminal in Zalaegerszeg in 2021.

The Group's strategic goal is to transport goods without carbon dioxide emissions and in a fully climate-friendly way. As part of its climate protection program, the METRANS Group prevented more than 45,000 tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere in 2021 with alternative, environmentally friendly solutions, according to a press release.