19.03.2025 | Sustainability
Daimler Truck published its Integrated Annual Report on March 14, 2025. In our chapter on sustainability, we have summarized all developments that our company has made in 2024 in terms of sustainability topics. For the first time, we have adapted this reporting to the requirements of the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Sustainability at Daimler Truck: Progress 2024
We have taken a decisive step forward in our Sustainability Reporting 2024. For the first time, we are reporting on our developments and progress in sustainability in accordance with the requirements of the CSRD Directive (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) of the European Union. This underlines that at Daimler Truck, business success and sustainability go hand in hand.
Our sustainability reporting demonstrates Daimler Truck's ongoing commitment to the areas of planet, people and performance. We want to reduce the impact on the climate and the environment, reduce CO₂e emissions in the transport industry and at the same time take responsibility for our employees and society.
In 2024, we increased our sales of battery-electric vehicles by 17% to 4,035 trucks and buses sold. The order intake increased by 22% to 5,617 units last year. This significant growth reflects the increased demand from our customers for locally CO2e free trucks and buses. Nevertheless, the sluggish expansion of infrastructure remains an obstacle on the way to sustainable transport.
With the start of series production of the Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 at the end of last year, Daimler Truck now has eleven all-electric truck and bus models in series production worldwide. The eActros 600 was voted "International Truck of the Year" last year and demonstrated its suitability for everyday use and outstanding efficiency during its "European Testing Tour" last summer over 15,000 kilometres through a total of 22 countries. Daimler Truck now offers trucks and buses with battery-electric drives in over 50 countries on six continents.
We are working consistently to further reduce CO2e emissions and resource consumption in our production. We have reduced our CO2e emissions in production by 13.8% compared to the previous year – and by 35.3% since 2021 – through the use of renewable energies and efficiency measures, among other things. We are already a big step closer to our goal of reducing our Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions at all our production sites by 42% by 2030 compared to 2021.
Our trucks and buses are designed for durability, reusability and repairability. In 2024, we calculated the recyclability of our vehicles for the first time1. At Group level as a whole, i. e. across all brands and products, it amounts to 93% of the total weight. For our battery-electric models Mercedes-Benz eActros, the Mercedes-Benz eCitaro city bus and the Freightliner eCascadia, it is even higher at up to 97%.
1 The actual recycling rate is highly dependent on regional conditions.
Worldwide, we have already installed around 40.6 MWp of photovoltaic modules at our production sites. In this way, we are constantly driving forward the use of renewable energy at the production sites and generated 35.7 GWh of electricity from solar radiation last year.
At our site in South Africa, we built a 13.5 MWp ground-mounted photovoltaic system last year together with an investor. This allows us to avoid around 20,000 tons of CO₂e annually.
Numerous logistics partners use our battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros for inbound transports. In 2024, we took another step on our path to gradually electrifying the transport of production materials to our largest truck plant in Wörth. As part of our inbound logistics concept for locally CO2e free delivery traffic, six new truck fast-charging stations for electric trucks were put into operation on the factory premises in Wörth last year.
We want to be a good employer and promote and create a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion that gives a sense of belonging at all levels and in all regions. In 2024, we were able to increase the proportion of women in management positions worldwide to 20.5% (compared to 2023: 19.8%). This is another step forward towards achieving our 25% ambition by 2030.
In 2024, we supported the transport of around 143 tons of relief supplies to Ukraine with six truck convoys with a total of eleven vehicles. On site, they were used in a targeted manner in cooperation with various partners and aid organizations. Daimler Truck will continue to provide trucks and transport capacities for aid transports in the future and release its employees as drivers.
Since the beginning of the Russian war on Ukraine in February 2022, we and our staff have provided monetary and in-kind donations, as well as vehicles for aid convoys with a total value of around 4.5 million euros and more than 4,000 tons of relief supplies. Donations were made to UNICEF, UNHCR, the German Red Cross and the World Food Program, among others.
The internal environmental prize honors outstanding projects and initiatives in the field of environmental protection and environmental commitment and was presented in five categories: “Green Products”, “Green Production” and “Green Supply Chain”, as well as in the special categories for “GreenTrainees” and “Green Engagement”. The “Green Mover Award” jury consisted of six colleagues and external experts in the field of sustainability, who selected the winning teams from a total of 124 submitted projects.
On pages 65 – 162 of the Integrated Annual Report 2024, you will find a detailed report on all of Daimler Truck's material sustainability topics in 2024.
Sustainability is an integral part of our core business and our business activities. We want to decarbonize transportation and passenger transportation and drive the industry-wide transformation. In this way, we act and assume responsibility for the benefit of the environment as well as people and society – on the basis of responsible corporate governance.
To achieve this, we focus on three areas of sustainability: Planet, People and Performance
Please find more information on sustainabilty at Daimler Truck here: Sustainability | Daimler Truck.