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The 100,000th Mercedes-Benz BlueTec Truck Handed Over to the Automobile Logistics Company Mosolf

Stuttgart/ Wörth am Rhein – The 100,000th BlueTec Mercedes-Benz truck was handed over by Hubertus Troska, Managing Director of Mercedes-Benz Trucks in Europe/Latin America, to Dr. Jörg Mosolf, CEO at Mosolf GmbH, and Georg Mekle, managing director of Mosolf GmbH in early January 2008. The jubilee vehicle is a Mercedes-Benz Actros 1841 LSNRA tractor/trailer unit with a low frame body for automobile transportation. The special driving cab means that the height of the vehicle does not exceed 2,642 mm. So an additional car can be carried on top of the cab of the Actros 1841 LSNRA.

The 100,000th Mercedes-Benz BlueTec truck was presented by Hubertus Troska (right), Managing Director of Mercedes-Benz Trucks in Europe/Latin America, to Dr. Jörg Mosolf (left), CEO at the Mosolf Group, at a ceremony in early January 2008. The jubilee vehicle is a Mercedes-Benz Actros 1841 LSNRA trailer-tractor unit with a low body frame suitable for automobile transportation.

Georg Mekle, Managing Director of Mosolf GmbH and responsible for fleet operations at the Mosolf Group, said at the vehicle handover ceremony: “We did not have any doubts about the need to invest in this forward-looking technology, particularly as it brings economic benefits and plays a role in protecting the environment too.”

Hubertus Troska remarked as the 100,000th Mercedes-Benz BlueTec truck was handed over: “The decision to go ahead with the BlueTec technology has produced an efficient fuel-saving programme, which is important particularly as fuel costs are rising significantly and the problems related to our climate are increasingly the focus of public debate. BlueTec combines economy and ecology in a unique manner. The 100,000 Mercedes-Benz BlueTec trucks have saved € 300 million in fuel costs and relieved the environment of 700,000 tonnes of CO2.”

* 100,000 BlueTec trucks in just under three years

* Mercedes-Benz BlueTec has the best fuel-saving technology for meeting the new Euro 4/5 standards

* Saves a freight train with diesel fuel, which would be 55 kilometres long

* Has prevented 700,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions

About BlueTec

BlueTec based on SCR (Selective Catalytic Reduction) technology is one of the solutions available to ensure that commercial vehicles meet the Euro 4 and Euro 5 standards and it combines this with enormous fuel savings. When compared with the previous Euro 3 standard, at least 80 percent fewer particle emissions and up to sixty percent less nitrogen oxide are emitted in the exhaust fumes. At the same time, Mercedes-Benz trucks with BlueTec engines use between two and five percent less fuel. If the average annual distance covered by long-distance trucks is 150,000 kilometres, this means fuel savings of 1,500 – 2,000 litres per annum. This provides significant relief for operators and the environment. So the BlueTec diesel technology quickly became a hit with customers.

The first vehicles were registered in January 2005, a long time before the statutory introduction of the Euro 4 standard in September 2006 and Euro 5 in September 2009, so some Mercedes-Benz BlueTec trucks already have more than a million kilometres under their belts. This underlines the reliability of the new generation of engines in very stark terms.

The volume of fuel saved as a result of using BlueTec amounts to approx. 300 million litres – the equivalent of a freight train with 2,922 four-axle tank wagons stretching for 55 kilometres or a convoy of trains with 8,700 fuel tankers on board. And in the same breath, the environment has benefited too. Some 700,000 tonnes of C02 have not been emitted into the atmosphere so far thanks to the BlueTec technology from Mercedes-Benz.

The BlueTec diesel technology from Mercedes Benz is primarily based on further developments in engine technology and exhaust gas aftertreatment. The efficiency of the combustion process produces emissions, which already meet the standards for filtered exhaust fumes in terms of soot particles and particulate matter. The nitrogen oxide is deliberately converted into innocuous nitrogen and steam in a catalytic converter by adding AdBlue (an aqueous carbamide solution); this integrated system provides aftertreatment for the exhaust fumes using the SCR principle.

About Mosolf

The Mosolf Group employs 2,000 specialists in global operations at 31 technical and logistics centres in Europe and Brazil and manages 2,000,000 vehicle movements from its headquarters in Kirchheim/Teck. Mosolf’s great strength is its internal networking of intermodal transport. The company currently uses 800 of its own special transporters, including 70 high-grade specialised vehicles and flat bed trailers, truck transporters up to three metres wide and low-loader vehicles with and without telescopic extenders; it also runs its own inland waterways ship designed to carry vehicles; the company also operates railway services with 300 of its own double-decker freight wagons and its own railway company.