Volkswagen Group Australia has introduced a partnership with fellow German big Jungheinrich, as a part of the intralogistics big’s community enlargement into Melbourne’s south-east.
Jungheinrich Australia managing director Axel Knigge was handed the keys to a pair of customized liveried Volkswagen ID. Buzz Cargo electrical vans by VW Group Australia’s managing director Karsten Seifert. Each are already in service in Melbourne and Sydney.
The partnership types a part of Jungheinrich Australia’s technique to shift its service fleet to low-emission automobiles, and obtain internet zero emissions throughout its international chain by 2050 – together with full electrification of its owned car fleet.
Volkswagen is already a long-standing accomplice for Jungheinrich globally, with one-third of the German intralogistics big’s 5000-strong service fleet equipped by the German model together with the Caddy and Transporter vans in addition to the Amarok dual-cab ute.
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The Jungheinrich ID. Buzz Cargo vans characteristic a particular livery design to commemorate the corporate’s over 70-year historical past: the left aspect reveals a historic Volkswagen T2 service van with a 1953 Jungheinrich forklift, with the fitting aspect donning a contemporary Jungheinrich lithium-ion electrical forklift.
Atop the roof is a “sustainably crafted wood surfboard”, which Volkswagen says “provides a playful nod to the VW van’s coastal legacy, completely becoming to Australia”.
Enjoyable reality: The T2-generation VW service van was the bottom of the German auto big’s first foray into electrical transport some 50 years in the past.
The VW T2 Elektro Transporter of the Seventies was powered by a 21.6kWh lead-acid battery providing “about 85km” of vary and even featured an ‘engine restoration system’ which captured “a few of” the kinetic power generated beneath braking to cost the battery – the early days of regen braking.
Jungheinrich says the ID. Buzz Cargo suits its wants as its Australian service technicians might journey “as much as 350km per day”, and may have to reply to “pressing, unplanned service calls”. The VW’s claimed 431km of driving vary on the WLTP cycle ought to be greater than as much as activity, then.
The cargo van also can carry two Euro pallets, whereas its 84kWh lithium-ion battery (4 instances the density of the T2 Elektro) may be charged from 5 to 80 per cent in round half-hour utilizing a quick charger due to its 185kW DC charging capability.
Above: Karsten Seifert and Axel Knigge
“In 2008, Jungheinrich was the primary producer to carry lithium-ion expertise into sequence manufacturing. That innovation helped scale back emissions and improve productiveness,” stated Axel Knigge, Jungheinrich Australia’s managing director.
“We’re now taking one other main step ahead electrifying our service fleet and delivering sustainable service to our prospects – and the ID. Buzz Cargo is a serious asset: low upkeep prices, zero emissions, and spectacular real-world vary.
“Jungheinrich stands for premium German-engineered merchandise, professional recommendation, and the most effective answer by way of Complete Value of Possession (TCO) and excessive operational readiness. We’re all the time on the lookout for companions who share our values and repeatedly enhance ourselves.”
Karsten Seifert, managing director for Volkswagen Group Australia, added: “By combining Volkswagen Business Automobiles’ reliability and innovation with Jungheinrich’s experience in materials dealing with, we’re driving effectivity, sustainability and progress throughout the availability chain collectively”.
Jungheinrich is likely one of the first corporations in Australia to combine the ID. Buzz Cargo into its operations.
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