Mercedes to use electric eActros 600 truck

Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team said on June 2 it will use an all-electric Mercedes-Benz Trucks eActros 600 to cover the nine races of the 2026 European season. The team said the truck is expected to travel about 15,000 km as part of its Net Zero 2030 plan. Mercedes described the move as the first full-season use of an electric truck by a Formula One team for its European campaign. The announcement follows electric-truck test runs by the team during the 2025 season. ### Which truck is Mercedes putting into service? The eActros 600 is Mercedes-Benz Trucks’ battery-electric heavy-duty model, and Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS said it will be used for race logistics during the European leg of the 2026 championship. The team said the vehicle will handle freight movements across nine races this summer and early autumn. (mercedesamgf1.com) Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS said the truck will cover “approx. 15,000 km” over the season. The team linked the deployment to its broader effort to cut emissions in areas it controls directly, including race logistics and factory operations. ### How big a change is this from what Mercedes was already doing? (mercedesamgf1.com) Mercedes used HVO100 biofuel across most of its European truck logistics before this latest step. Formula 1 said in October 2024 that Mercedes had powered its European season on HVO100 biofuel, with 98% coverage in race and marketing trucks and generators, saving more than 500 tonnes of CO2e. (mercedesamgf1.com) The team said in October 2025 that it reached 99% coverage of HVO100 biofuel across its European race and marketing truck logistics. That means the eActros 600 program builds on an existing logistics decarbonization effort rather than replacing a fully diesel-based system overnight. ### Did Mercedes test this before committing for the full European season? (formula1.com) Mercedes said it first used electric trucks on a race-weekend freight move between Brackley and Silverstone in 2025. The team said three eActros 600 trucks transported race cars and supporting equipment for the British Grand Prix. The team said later in August 2025 that it used an all-electric eActros 600 to transport its W16 race cars to the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, a 673 km trip from Brackley. (mercedesamgf1.com) Mercedes said that made it the first team on the grid to use electric power to transport race cars to a European race weekend. ### Which races are covered by the nine-race European stretch? (mercedesamgf1.com) Formula 1’s official 2026 calendar shows the European run beginning with Barcelona-Catalunya on June 12-14, after Monaco on June 5-7. The subsequent European rounds listed on the calendar are Austria on June 26-28, Britain on July 3-5, Belgium on July 17-19, Hungary on July 24-26, the Netherlands on August 21-23, Italy on September 4-6 and Spain on September 11-13. (mercedesamgf1.com) The nine-race count in Mercedes’ announcement aligns with that sequence when Monaco is included as the first European event in June. Mercedes did not, in the search results reviewed, publish a race-by-race freight plan for each individual leg. That alignment is an inference based on the team’s “nine races” statement and Formula 1’s published 2026 schedule. (formula1.com) ### How does Mercedes frame the move inside its wider climate target? Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS says its Net Zero work focuses on “practical problem solving” in areas where it has the most control. On its sustainability page, the team says those areas include race logistics and factory operations, while aviation remains harder to address. The June 2 announcement places the eActros 600 deployment inside that same Net Zero 2030 program. (mercedesamgf1.com) Formula 1’s 2026 calendar lists Barcelona-Catalunya as the next race on June 12-14, which is where the European leg begins after Monaco and where the team’s new logistics setup is due to come into view. (mercedesamgf1.com)