The Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team will deploy a battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 truck across all nine European races on the 2026 Formula One calendar, a move the team says makes it the first F1 team to use an electric truck throughout an entire European race season.
The eActros 600 will transport one of the team’s race trailers between events, covering approximately 15,000 kilometres over the next three months as the championship travels between venues including Monaco and Madrid.
The truck arrived in Monaco from the team’s headquarters in Brackley, England, on June 1 ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, completing its first journey of around 1,600 kilometres.
Supporting Race Logistics
According to the team, the electric truck will be used to transport operational infrastructure required at race events, including communications equipment and facilities used by medical and physiotherapy staff.
Formula One teams rely heavily on extensive logistics networks to move equipment between races, making transportation one of the more challenging areas to decarbonize.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS said the deployment forms part of broader efforts to reduce emissions associated with race operations.
Electric Truck Specifications
The Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 is equipped with a 600 kWh usable lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery pack and is designed for long-haul transport applications.
The vehicle offers a minimum driving range of 500 kilometres on a single charge and can recharge from 20% to 80% battery capacity in approximately 25 minutes when connected to a megawatt charging system (MCS).
The truck is intended to support heavy-duty freight operations while reducing emissions compared with conventional diesel-powered transport.
Building on Earlier Trials
The full-season deployment follows electric logistics trials conducted by the team during the 2025 Formula One season.
Those efforts included a pilot journey to the British Grand Prix and the transport of the team’s W16 race cars from Brackley to Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix using battery-electric transport.
Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS said the electric truck initiative is part of a wider logistics strategy that also includes the use of HVO100 biofuel supplied with support from title and technical partner PETRONAS.
“We are realising our ambition of deploying the Mercedes-Benz Trucks eActros 600 across all nine European races, demonstrating our commitment to accelerating decarbonisation in some of the hardest-to-abate areas of our operations,” said Alice Ashpitel, head of sustainability at the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team.
“As a team, we are committed to engineering change on and off the track, and it’s exciting to see how quickly we have moved from pilot journeys to a full rollout.”
Ash Armstrong, eConsultancy manager at Daimler Truck UK, said the deployment demonstrates the growing viability of electric trucks for long-distance transport applications.
“We are proud to be pushing the boundaries of what’s possible in Formula One logistics once again.”
“With the eActros 600 supporting the Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team at all nine European races this season, this project is a powerful demonstration that long-haul electric transport is not a future ambition, it’s a reality today.”
The initiative highlights increasing interest in battery-electric heavy-duty vehicles as companies seek to reduce emissions from freight and logistics operations.