Mercedes-Benz Trucks secured a repeat order for 75 eActros 600s from Simon Loos, taking the Dutch logistics group’s electric fleet to 210 vehicles — the largest in the Netherlands and among the biggest in Europe. Fleet manager Wim Roks said the first batch, ordered autumn 2024, ‘exceeded expectations’ in real-world service; about two-thirds of the first 75 are already delivered, with roughly 150 eActros 600 expected in service by end-2026.

The new trucks go into food distribution, with three-axle configurations for network transport and beverage logistics. Simon Loos was also Europe’s first operator of the first-generation eActros 300 back in 2021 — a five-year electrification track record that makes it the industry’s reference fleet for exactly the depot-distribution duty cycle our scenario guides cover.

Why repeat orders are the metric that matters: pilot orders test trucks; repeat orders certify economics. Simon Loos’s decision to double a fleet whose first batch had barely finished delivering is the strongest TCO evidence the eActros 600 has produced to date — stronger than any test drive. It’s also the procurement pattern our China coverage tracks in bulk form (1,000-truck corridor deals): the pilot-to-framework transition is happening on both continents in the same quarter.