{"id":343652,"date":"2026-01-15T10:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:38:45","slug":"winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter gamble: Austrian couple reaches the North Cape in a battery-electric tractor unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\"><br \/>Minus 41 degrees Celsius, icy inclines, sparse charging infrastructure\u2014and right in the middle of it all, an electric 40-ton truck with a trailer. What sounds like an extreme challenge to many was a meticulously calculated journey for Herbert and Silvia Salentinig from Austria. During the eNordkappChallenge 2025, they drove a standard Mercedes-Benz eActros 600 to the northernmost point of Europe. And in doing so, they demonstrated: Electric mobility works even under extreme conditions. <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/01\/15\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/01\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Logo&#8221;&gt;Minus 41 degrees Celsius, icy inclines, sparse charging infrastructure\u2014and right in the middle of it all, an electric 40-ton truck with a trailer. What sounds like an extreme challenge to many was a meticulously calculated journey for Herbert and Silvia Salentinig from Austria. During the eNordkappChallenge 2025, they drove a&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/winter-gamble-austrian-couple-reaches-the-north-cape-in-a-battery-electric-tractor-unit\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":343653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}