Just 19.44 liters with a 25-tonne payload: Actros is consumption record holder

  • Date
    29 May 2008
  • Description

    A 40-tonne tractor-semitrailer combination with an Actros semitrailer tractor featuring BlueTec 5 technology completes a seven-day fuel consumption test run on the circuit in Nardò, southern Italy. Over the test run of 12,728 km and with with a 25-tonne payload at an average speed of 80 km/h, the Actros consumes a mere 19.44 litres of diesel fuel per 100 km, or less than 0.8 litres per 100-tonne-kilometres (tkm). This record gives the Actros the title of "Most fuel-efficient 40 ton truck" and an entry in the official "Guinness World Records" listing.

Field Trial Extreme - Nardo World Record
CleanDrive Technologies - Actros BlueTec 5
The Mercedes-Benz Actros on its way into the Guinness Book of Records: It has become "the world's most fuel-efficient series-production truck" with diesel consumption of 19,44 l/100 km 12.728,94 km in seven days. Taken in relation to its transport capacity, this equates about 0.8 litres per tonne-kilometre (tkm) and less than 20,5 g/tkm CO2. This means that the ultimate efficiency goal of 1 litre per 100 km fuel consumption has become reality for the first time in a truck.
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Mercedes-Benz Actros BlueTec 5
Field Trial Extreme - Nardo World Record
CleanDrive Technologies - Actros BlueTec 5
The Mercedes-Benz Actros on its way into the Guinness Book of Records: It has become "the world's most fuel-efficient series-production truck" with diesel consumption of 19,44 l/100 km 12.728,94 km in seven days. Taken in relation to its transport capacity, this equates about 0.8 litres per tonne-kilometre (tkm) and less than 20,5 g/tkm CO2. This means that the ultimate efficiency goal of 1 litre per 100 km fuel consumption has become reality for the first time in a truck.
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Mercedes-Benz Actros BlueTec 5
Field Trial Extreme - Nardo World Record
CleanDrive Technologies - Actros BlueTec 5
The Mercedes-Benz Actros on its way into the Guinness Book of Records: It has become "the world's most fuel-efficient series-production truck" with diesel consumption of 19,44 l/100 km 12.728,94 km in seven days. Taken in relation to its transport capacity, this equates about 0.8 litres per tonne-kilometre (tkm) and less than 20,5 g/tkm CO2. This means that the ultimate efficiency goal of 1 litre per 100 km fuel consumption has become reality for the first time in a truck.
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Mercedes-Benz Actros BlueTec 5
The new Mercedes-Benz Actros on its way into the Guinness Book of Records: It has become "the world´s most fuel-efficient series-production truck" with diesel consumption of 19,44 l/100 km 12.728,94 km in seven days. Taken in relation to its transport capacity, this equates about 0.8 litres per tonne-kilometre (tkm) and less than 20,5 g/tkm CO2. This means that the ultimate efficiency goal of 1 litre per 100 km fuel consumption has become reality for the first time in a truck.
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Mercedes-Benz Actros BlueTec 5
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