Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 Truck Reverses For 124.7-km, 6Hrs 22 Minutes To Set A New Guinness World Record

Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 Truck with Semitrailer reverses for 124.7 kilometers to set a new Guinness World Record.

Record took 6 hours 22 mins to complete, beats previous record of some 89-km set in the USA in 2020 in a diesel truck.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks has set a new Guinness World Record title with its battery-electric eActros 600 truck with a semitrailer after driving in reverse for 124.7 kilometers on Motorsport Arena Oschersleben racetrack in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.

The new record set by the new eActros 600 with a semitrailer took around 6 hours and 22 minutes to complete and it beats the previous world record of some 89 kilometers set in the USA in 2020 in a diesel truck.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks wins Guinness World Records title with eActros 600

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Behind the wheel is 50 year old Marco Hellgrewe, an officer in the German Armed Forces and a truck enthusiast who set his first backwards record in 2008.

“I’m incredibly proud to have brought back the record to Germany together with Mercedes-Benz Trucks – especially as it was a world first with an all-electric drive,” said Marco Hellgrewe, the driver of the eActros 600.

The Motorsport Arena Oschersleben racetrack in Saxony-Anhalt boasts 14 tight bends designed for cars, though it offered fewer unpredictable risks of having to stop and thus interrupt the record attempt than public roads.

“The very long trip with a total of 476 bends demanded an enormous effort – for this reason alone, it was a great help that the eActros 600 and its assistance systems make driving so much easier,” said Marco Hellgrewe, the initiator of the electric record attempt.

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