{"id":17548,"date":"2026-05-21T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17548\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T00:30:10","slug":"charged-evs-traton-secures-e850-million-for-investments-in-battery-electric-trucks-and-buses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/17548\/","title":{"rendered":"Charged EVs | Traton secures \u20ac850 million for investments in battery-electric trucks and buses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/?s=Traton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traton Group<\/a>, majority-owned by Volkswagen, has raised a total of \u20ac850 million to invest in battery-electric drivetrains.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, Traton introduced a Green Finance Framework, enabling investors to specifically support projects related to battery-electric commercial vehicles. The company has now completed its first two transactions under this framework, issuing a \u20ac500-million green bond and securing a loan of \u20ac350 million.<\/p>\n<p>Traton says it will use the \u201cgreen funds\u201d to accelerate the electric transformation of its brands MAN, <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/?s=Scania\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scania<\/a>, International (USA), and Volkswagen Truck &amp; Bus (Brazil). In the first quarter of 2026, the share of EV sales across all the group\u2019s brands reached 1.4%\u2014a paltry number, but an increase compared to the 0.9% reported in the same quarter of the previous year.<\/p>\n<p>MAN has long offered a battery-electric city bus, the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/?s=Lion&#x2019;s%20City%20E\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lion\u2019s City E<\/a>, and recently launched a line of battery-electric trucks, centered around the eTGX. An electric coach, the Lion\u2019s Coach E, is scheduled to debut this year. Scania recently secured an order for 91 electric public transport buses for in its hometown of S\u00f6dert\u00e4lje.<\/p>\n<p>Traton\u2019s CFO, Dr. Michael Jackstein, said: \u201cOur first Green Bond and Loan on Traton level mark a clear milestone in the evolution of our financing strategy. It translates our electrification strategy to the bond and loan markets and provides investors with a transparent and credible opportunity to participate in the transformation of commercial transport. Both transactions clearly demonstrate that green finance and industrial transformation go hand in hand at Traton.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Traton, along with Daimler Truck and Volvo Truck, continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainabletruckvan.com\/volvo-daimler-traton-trump-us-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">lobbying to weaken emissions standards<\/a> in the US and Europe. The companies recently <a href=\"https:\/\/library.edf.org\/AssetLink\/4t06e8x4jd23y32np2k1jhx0g4467m52.pdf?_gl=1*1xgkwux*_gcl_au*NTIyNTYyMzY4LjE3NzMxMTM4ODY.*_ga*NzY0MTAzMDIzLjE2ODM5MTAwNDc.*_ga_2B3856Y9QW*czE3NzQ1MjAxMjUkbzQzMCRnMSR0MTc3NDUyMTg0MiRqNjAkbDAkaDA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">filed a motion<\/a> through the Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association to defend the Trump EPA\u2019s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding and the repeal of all motor vehicle climate standards.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/05\/08\/traton-secures-e850-million-for-investments-in-battery-electric-trucks-and-buses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Electrive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Traton Group, majority-owned by Volkswagen, has raised a total of \u20ac850 million to invest in battery-electric drivetrains.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21168],"tags":[21300,13654,1918,1919,1920,21188],"class_list":["post-17548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-traton","tag-battery-pack-design-manufacturing","tag-commercial-vehicles","tag-ev-infrastructure-fleet-deployment","tag-ev-market","tag-oem-news","tag-traton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}