Zero emission, automation and digitalisation: Our stories are as diverse and multifaceted as the company itself. Get insider info from the MAN universe here.
Simon Motter is Head of Volkswagen Group Logistics. In this interview, he discusses the transformation of drive systems in freight transport and why he thinks there is no alternative to the electric truck. This is the first in a series of conversations about e-mobility in action and the future of logistics.
It is the largest bus contract in Deutsche Bahn's history – and the contract goes to Munich. MAN Truck & Bus and Deutsche Bahn are continuing their successful cooperation with a framework agreement for more than 3,000 vehicles.
For two decades, the MAN Christmas truck has been bringing joy to children – and for its 20th anniversary, it is now fully electric. Not only that, but at its premiere, the eTGX also carried the first two charging stations for FC Bayern Munich's commercial vehicle charging park at the Allianz Arena.
MAN and Volkswagen Group Logistics invited experts and customers to Munich to discuss the prospects for climate-friendly transport. The conclusion was clear: electric trucks are the future.
At Busworld in Brussels (3 to 9 October 2025), MAN will be showcasing the next stage of its zero-emission strategy. The focus will be on the new Lion’s Coach E, but the Lion’s City E and other models will also impress visitors with their innovative technology.
The Lion's Coach 14 E celebrated its world premiere at Busworld Europe in Brussels. Optimised aerodynamics and powerful battery packs enable a range of up to 650 kilometres.
More than 3.2 million kilometres on the clock – and still reliably up to the task of long-distance transport. A 2008 MAN Lion truck has won the “MAN Truck Max Mileage Master 2025.”
From construction sites to searches for missing persons: the MAN TGE Next Level demonstrates its versatility in a wide range of applications, including at Hitachi Construction Machinery UK, where it is clear to see why a strong partnership with MAN is the key to success.
MAN and TUM Venture Labs have agreed a strategic partnership that will provide the commercial vehicle manufacturer with access to Europe’s largest deep tech ecosystem, enabling it to accelerate and promote innovations in the fields of AI and robotics.
MAN and the Dettendorfer freight forwarding company test the night-time deployment of fully electric trucks on a route between Raubling and Bolzano over a four-week period.
On a site the size of 140 football pitches, MAN develops and manufactures HGVs, axles and cabs in its Munich factory. Its 70th anniversary saw a big family party - with beer brought by an eTruck.
Exclusive insights into Ankara: MAN has unveiled its electrically powered Lion's Coach E for the first time. The future of passenger transport has begun.
MAN is expanding its global logistics centre in Salzgitter by 30 percent - in preparation for growth in zero-emission technologies, new models and the TRATON GROUP's joint modular system.
Goal achieved: After three years of development work, the ATLAS-L4 project has delivered the blueprint for the series development of autonomous trucks. The future can come.
The transport company Elflein has been a partner of the BMW Group for inter-plant transport for many years. On the journey from Regensburg to Leipzig, the MAN eTGX proved that e-trucks have long been suitable for everyday use.
MAN is the first truck manufacturer to publish sensor and driving data from the development of autonomous driving for research purposes. Now teams from across the world are being invited to take part in a challenge to use the data sets to improve algorithms.
MAN has taken another big step towards the future: Series production of batteries has begun at its traditional site in Nuremberg – and MAN has announced millions more euros of investment in production.
MAN batteries undergo extensive testing to prove their ability to withstand the tough everyday life of a commercial vehicle – including fires and collisions with bollards.
With 3,500 exhibitors from 57 countries, Bauma in Munich is the world’s leading trade show for the construction industry. MAN is showcasing its diesel and electric trucks there. Johann Schuster is responsible for the company’s stand at Bauma and spoke to us about current trends and MAN highlights.
From bitterly cold Lapland to the Allianz Arena in Munich: a battery-electric MAN eTGX has successfully completed this 3,400-kilometre trip, proving that a journey of this kind is already possible today with the public charging infrastructure that is currently in place.
Dachser has put twelve MAN eTGX ultra-low-liner trucks into operation. Drivers from sites throughout Germany collected their new electric lions directly from MAN in Munich
MAN has started production of the new, highly efficient 13-litre MAN D30 diesel engine at its Nuremberg plant. At the same time, future battery production is already underway at the site.
Automotive logistics specialist Duvenbeck has put the first of up to 120 MAN eTrucks into service. With the eTGX Ultra Low Liner, MAN is meeting the specific requirements of the automotive industry.
MAN has celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the new battery production plant in Nuremberg. Guests included Minister-President Markus Söder, Nuremberg mayor Marcus König and MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp.
A historic day for MAN: in mid-October, Friedrich Baumann, the member of the Executive Board responsible for sales, handed over the first eTruck to automotive supplier DRÄXLMAIER in Leipzig. It will be used to transport batteries for the electric Porsche Macan in the future.
Pre-production of the eTruck has begun at the Munich factory. It is assembled on the same line as the diesel truck. This is only possible thanks to smart product and process solutions coupled with strong teamwork and highly qualified employees.
The trade fair is over – and MAN has delivered: with an impressive appearance at the IAA Transportation, the team was able to inspire experts, customers and the general public.
This record goes beyond imagination: extreme athlete Jonas Deichmann has completed the long-distance triathlon - 120 days in a row. A MAN TGE served as his oasis of calm.
FC Bayern Munich and its long-standing sponsorship partner MAN Truck & Bus are setting an example: A charging park for electric buses and lorries is being built at the Allianz Arena.
Bus operator Hansea has ordered 181 electric Lions, operating the largest zero-emissions fleet in Belgium. This order means that MAN Truck & Bus can build on its market-leading position in the country.
After around four weeks of traveling over rivers and roads, the U17 submarine has arrived at the Sinsheim Museum of Technology - pulled over long distances by a MAN TGX 41.680
Megawatt milestone in mid-July in Lower Bavaria: for the first time, an electric truck has publicly charged its batteries with more than 1,000 kilowatts and 1,500 amps.
As part of their new cooperation, the German energy company E.ON and MAN will set up around 170 locations with around 400 charging points for the public charging of electric trucks across Europe.
Premiere of a special kind: In mid-April, two renowned journalists were allowed to drive the new eTGX for the first time - on the highway from Munich to Nuremberg and back again.
MAN has successfully completed the first highway drive of an autonomous truck in Germany. The first tests in hub-to-hub traffic in typical customer applications will follow as early as 2025.
Premiere of the megawatt charging system at MAN: For the first time, an eTruck was publicly charged with more than 700 kilowatts and 1,000 amps - an important step towards climate-friendly freight transport.
Mobility Move, held from 5 to 7 March in Berlin, showcased innovations in electromobility, self-driving and digitalisation. One highlight was the BeIntelli bus on the MAN stand.
In the next part of the Workshop series, MAN investigates the needs of female drivers and feeds the findings into truck product development. All this will also help to make truck driving a more attractive career for women.
MAN eBuses are already in use in several ski resorts, where they are reducing emissions. Snow groomers are also becoming a little greener – they’re using HVO rather than diesel or fitting hydrogen engines from MAN Engines.
For the last few weeks, 76 zero-emission MAN eBuses have been carrying passengers through Oslo. The electric Lions have shown that they can even cope with adverse weather conditions.
MAN partner CO2OPT provides fleet operators with recommendations for the best tyres for their trucks or buses with the aid of vehicle data and other external data. This can save them up to ten per cent in fuel.
What a year! In 2023, the TGE number 100,000 and the Lion's City E number 1,000 rolled off the MAN production line. The Krakow plant produced its 250,000th truck. MAN also continued to drive forward future topics such as e-mobility, digitalisation and automation. See for yourself!
The beginning of October 2023 saw MAN deliver the first fully electric complete bus for the African market. The Lion’s Explorer E was adapted to suit local requirements and built on site.
Mohit Kumar Garg works as a controls engineer at the MAN headquarters in Munich. Originally from Sonipat, around one and a half hours away from New Delhi, Mohit came to Germany in 2015. In 2018, he joined MAN – first as an intern and later on as a PhD student. In this interview, he tells us what it was like for him to work in Germany with limited knowledge of the local language, and how he managed to fit into the new work environment.
Just in time for the sales launch of the electrically powered MAN eTrucks, customers and body manufacturers were introduced to the MAN eTGX for long-distance transport and the MAN eTGS for distribution.
Emission-free, networked – and automated: that’s what the future of urban bus transport looks like. MAN has been working on driverless buses for many years, including the MINGA project in Munich.
VIP visit to the MAN bus plant in Ankara: Minister for Economic Affairs, Dr Robert Habeck, saw MAN’s progress in sustainable mobility for himself last Friday.
At the end of October, an interim conclusion was drawn in the MAN Truck Forum for the ATLAS-L4 sponsorship project. Key milestones have been reached. Next comes the practical testing in 2024.
Drivers, passengers and operators will all benefit from greater safety, comfort and efficiency. Here is an overview of the new features of the 2024 models.
There were countless new innovations to see at Busworld Europe 2023 in Brussels, including two world premieres from MAN. 526 exhibitors, 251 vehicles, 40,000 visitors – the event was a total success.
From 2025, MAN will manufacture its own battery packs in a mass production facility in Nuremberg. The foundation stone for this key future project was laid on 10 October.
MAN is accelerating the switch to eMobility and has already produced more than 1,000 eBuses. The next model year brings increased efficiency, greater range and improved safety.
Deniz Bulbul has been working for MAN since October 2021 as a technical project coordinator in the development team for buses in Ankara. He has had an orthopedic disability since birth and wears a prosthesis on his left leg. In this interview, he talks about the situations in which his disability affects his life, how the company supports him, and how he discovered diving despite his physical impairment.
Electrically powered trucks from MAN protect the climate - and your ears. An independent noise measurement has shown that the logistics of the future could be as quiet as a whisper.
On the 180th birthday of commercial vehicle pioneer Heinrich Büssing, Minister President Stephan Weil took a look at the future of electric long-haul transport at the MAN plant in Salzgitter.
After the MAN Lion's City 12 E and 18 E, the little brother 10 E is now rolling out. It masters the first endurance test in the Dolomites with flying colours.
An exclusive MAN Lion’s Coach takes the Borussia Mönchengladbach team to its Bundesliga matches. For a special experience in the team bus, some fans were also allowed on board.
Dominic Diers is autistic and has ADHD – and has had a successful career at MAN for almost twenty years. Today, he works as a Digitalization Expert Learning in the Sales & Customer Service Academy at MAN's headquarters in Munich.
Together with Bavarian Prime Minister Dr Markus Söder, MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp took the new MAN eTruck on its first drive on a public road in Munich.
Four months in the Arctic Circle at temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees Celsius, a total of 28,000 working hours and 30 engineers involved: the MAN eTruck passed the "stress test" in freezing cold northern Sweden with flying colours.
As a 14-year-old, Abozar Tabibi fled Afghanistan at the end of 2015 – on foot, alone and unable to speak another language. Today, he is 22 and works as a mechatronics technician at MAN’s service centre in Quickborn to the north of Hamburg, where he also completed his apprenticeship.
Green deal for the “Queen of the North Sea”: Five MAN eBuses are ferrying tourists and residents around the island of Sylt. And that’s only the beginning.
Jeanne Thylkjær Fjorback is the Handywoman and turns women into hobby craftswomen. She is touring Denmark in her workshop on wheels, based on a pink MAN TGX.
Katharina's job is to repair and maintain public buses. In the interview, she tells us how she fares in a male-dominated field and what advantages she brings to the team.
MAN has landed the top international bus awards with its city buses and coaches for the third time in succession. However, they are not just impressing industry juries, customers are also extremely pleased with their MAN products.
Modern technology means that the MAN Lion’s City E can already cover the majority of all existing suburban transport routes. With a trained driver at the wheel, it can achieve significantly higher ranges.
Erik Kraus-Boere lives with his wife, two children, his mother-in-law, who needs care, and several animals on a former farm near Frankfurt - and is naturally a manager in the Sales & Customer Solutions department at MAN's Munich headquarters. Erik has worked at MAN since 2006 and has been Head of Sales Used Bus and now Used Van since 2016. Erik tells us in this interview how he combines family, a wife in management, and caring for relatives with his job as a manager.
Under the “MAN ecoline” label, the commercial vehicle manufacturer offers reconditioned engines and components. Demand is high, and so are the benefits to the environment and our climate.
MAN is among the top five per cent of assessed companies in the Vehicle Manufacture sector. Success through multidisciplinary cooperation between all areas of MAN.
Maximum energy in minimum time: that’s the story for fully electric HGVs such as the new MAN eTruck when they stop to charge. The solution is megawatt charging. As Head of Charging at MAN Truck & Bus, Marcel Hessel is responsible for the series development of charging systems, including the new Megawatt Charging System (MCS).
In the development of its electric fleet, safety is a top priority for MAN at every step. To this end, the company has developed a “House of Safety” to cover all safety topics.
Tough testing leads to top quality: before a MAN truck or bus is delivered to its customer, it has to go through a lot. Under the slogan “Tested to the limit”, vehicles are sent out into burning heat and bitter cold. And of course, the Lion’s City E was no exception.
An impressive life story: Guillaume Levaillant is a passionate truck driver, managing director of Paratrans, the transport company he set up – and he has been paralysed from the age of 22 years old. That hasn’t hindered this entrepreneur. We visited the genuine workaholic in the North of France.
Individuality is of major importance at MAN. If you want a MAN TGX or a MAN TGE with a special touch, for example, MAN Individual is exactly where you need to go. The experts there take care of nearly every customer request that goes beyond series production.
MAN Truck & Bus is aiming to be neutral by 2050. For the first step, the target is to save 70 per cent of emissions compared to 2019 levels across all the company’s locations around the world by 2030.
MAN expects its suppliers to improve their sustainability. Copper is a raw material that has a special part to play when it comes to sustainable supply chains.
The E/E architecture used in MAN trucks is not only a requirement for connected and self-driving vehicles, it also facilitates the next stage of the company’s transformation and completely new business models.
The MAN Trucks E/E architecture uses one central control unit. It is already setting the benchmark for digitalisation and will form the basis for all vehicle generations from 2023/24.
Georg Fischer is the fourth generation of his family to run this freight forwarder on Norderney. For the past few months he has been transporting suitcases and parcels across the island, now also in his fully-electric vans from MAN – not least to set a good example in this health resort.
Pellworm is celebrating a new era of sustainable mobility. Holiday guests and islanders can now for the first time use a fully-electric urban bus to travel around the North Frisian island. The operator Neue Pellwormer Dampfschiffahrts GmbH made the decision to acquire the MAN Lion’s City 12 E.
MAN is continuing to advance freight transport based on autonomous trucks. Series production of zero-emission trucks is to be expected by the end of the decade.
MAN and NEOPLAN urban buses and coaches are among the safest means of transport in existence. This not only applies to driving safety, which has continuously increased due to technologically advanced assistance systems. These buses and coaches are also exemplary when it comes to health and hygiene, which is proving its worth right now in the coronavirus situation.
Of the almost 100,000 engines that MAN Truck & Bus produces each year, yacht engines are only a small yet very refined group. Unassailable in their performance, compactness and consumption, these high-speed diesel units are in demand for top of the range shipbuilding. An excursion from the Côte d’Azur to Lake Constance – to two of many waters around the world where these marvels of technology are deployed.
Manufacturing trucks and buses requires a lot of energy and MAN’s carbon footprint was therefore relatively large in the past. Yet consistent restructuring and modernisation of our energy supply, the use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures have enabled us to succeed in continuously reducing it. MAN is striving for climate-neutral production by 2030.
Spring is already introducing mild air here in Germany, yet Norway is still in the depths of winter. Temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees, snow storms, zero visibility. Extreme for some, but for young Ola Andersen it’s just all in a day’s work. With the help of his MAN TGS, Ola secures an essential winter lifeline for the Norwegian community of Rødberg.
The idyll is deceptive: Every trip to collect milk from mountain pastures is risky. Steep ascents, narrow gravel roads, 1,600 metres height difference and 15,000 litres of milk await the driver. Fortunately, he’s able to rely on his truck when manoeuvring at the cliff edge. The MAN TGS 26.500 with HydroDrive is his life insurance.
High tempo, smooth processes, man and machine in perfect unison: trucks are assembled in five production steps at MAN plants worldwide - for example on the production line in Munich.
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