Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), the wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, announced the market launch of the all-electric light-duty truck Next Generation eCanter in the Indian market. This marks the DICV’s foray into the Indian battery electric commercial vehicle market and the company’s push into the light-duty truck segment in India.

The light-duty electric truck will be launched in the market within the upcoming six to twelve months. The market launch marks DICVs first step towards the larger vision of decarbonization their product portfolio in the long term. With the clear vision to decarbonize the transportation industry and reduce resource consumption, Daimler Truck is striving for its new trucks and buses to be CO₂-neutral in Europe, Japan and the US by 2039 and globally by 2050.

DICV is working on the readiness of a CO₂-neutral product portfolio in line with Daimler Truck’s global decarbonization vision and the overall target for India as soon as possible following the above core markets.

The eCanter battery-electric platform originated in at Daimler Truck’s subsidiary Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC) Japan where the series production of the first-generation eCanter started already in 2017. The all-new, Next-Generation eCanter had its world premiere in Japan and Europe in the second half of 2022.

Since the launch of the first-generation in 2017, the eCanter has sold in hundreds in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong. The proven, Next Generation eCanter will have significant presence in major markets around the world with more than 40 variants between 4.25 and 8.55 tons and numerous body options.

DICV started as a wholly-owned Daimler Truck subsidiary in 2012 with the ambition to transform the Indian commercial vehicle industry with new benchmarks in engineering, safety and comfort in BharatBenz-branded trucks and buses. With a broad product portfolio between 9 and 55 tons, BharatBenz trucks and buses are tailored to various customer applications. Since 2012, DICV exported produced and exported more than 240,000 trucks and buses.