04.03.2025
International
MAN Truck & Bus has started production of its new 13-liter MAN D30 diesel engine in Nuremberg, the largest in the entire portfolio. There are no plans for a successor generation, the company says.
The D30 will be the last completely newly developed diesel commercial vehicle engine at MAN. It thus bridges the gap in the transition from combustion engines to electrified drives. Its production launch will take place almost in parallel with the start of battery series production at the plant planned for spring. This means that Nuremberg will be producing the centrepieces of the drives for both combustion engines and electrically powered MAN vehicles for many years to come.
MAN has invested around 220 million euros in the plant to realise the production and a further 30 million euros for the associated crankshaft production at the Salzgitter plant. By 2030, every second vehicle MAN delivers is to have an emission-free drive. "However, this also means that we will still need very efficient combustion engines for a long time on the road to the transformation to electromobility," says MAN CEO Alexander Vlaskamp.
The D30 replaces the previously available D26 and D15 engine series. It is based on Compacted Graphite Iron (CGI) cylinder blocks and cylinder heads produced with Sintercast process control technology. According to the Swedish company, the engines benefit from a 5 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to the previous generation of engines thanks to the GJV, while at the same time reducing CO2 emissions.
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