In a special spotlight interview, Automotive Logistics talked exclusively with German equipment manufacturer Kässbohrer Transport Technik and Designwerk Products, the companies behind a customised electric car carrier built in collaboration with Swiss finished vehicle logistics player, Galliker Transport.

The truck is the first fully electrified, full-size car transporter and is based on a Futuricum e-truck. Futuricum is a division of Designwerk that makes electric trucks, mobile rapid chargers, and modular battery systems for electric vehicles. The company says that electric trucks will be an important to the future of mid and long-distance road transport.

Designwerk, the mother company of Futuricum, is currently working on megawatt battery, buffered charging solutions with high-speed charging especially for e-trucks like the Kässbohrer car transporter.

Dr Markus Guggenbichler, head of sales and product development at Kässbohrer, and Tobias Wülser, founder at Designwerk Products, talk to Namrita Chow about the sustainable contribution the technology promises for the industry and whether this pilot is the gamechanger heralding the future of electric transporters for the finished vehicle logistics sector.