Altimax and Ampr unveil battery-electric Porter Npe Safe E-Jet sewer cleaning truck, 380 km range claimed
Italian firms Altimax and Ampr presented a sewer cleaning truck on a Piaggio Porter Npe base, where one battery drives both the vehicle and the pump. No sale date yet.
Altimax of Prato and Ampr of Campania unveiled in early November 2026 a sanitation utility vehicle in which both the drive and the working equipment run on a battery, according to Notizie di Prato as reported by science-et-vie.com science-et-vie.com
science-et-vie.comscience-et-vie.comOpen source ↗. The vehicle is called Porter Npe Safe E-Jet. Until now, such sewer-cleaning machines relied on a combustion engine that also drove the pump. In the new truck this engine is removed, and a single battery handles propulsion and the suction of sludge.
Design and capabilities
The truck is built on the Piaggio Porter Npe, a small electric utility vehicle suited to narrow streets. It continues the Safe Combi, presented in 2025 to ease sanitation work in historic city centres. That compact machine already sucked up sludge and non-hazardous liquids where conventional trucks struggled to pass. The developers aimed to keep this versatility while dropping diesel.
The same battery powers the propulsion and all tools, including the water pump. The announced range is 380 kilometres, and the driver decides between driving farther and running the equipment longer. This lets the vehicle be matched to a long route or to extended cleaning on site. A large tank carries clean water, and a suction system combines it with the pumping of liquids and sludge. The vehicle also performs high-pressure cleaning of pipes, that is, flushing with jets of water under high pressure.
The manufacturers did not disclose the power, battery capacity, tank volume or price.
Emissions, noise and availability
Without a combustion engine the vehicle produces no exhaust gas and can work in low-emission zones, which are often hard for diesel trucks to enter science-et-vie.com
science-et-vie.comscience-et-vie.comOpen source ↗. Crews can service wastewater networks without exposing residents to the usual fumes. The manufacturers also say noise is considerably reduced thanks to the electric pump. They state that it is the world's first fully electric sanitation vehicle; this is their claim.
The project came from a collaboration between Altimax and Ampr with support from Piaggio. Engineers Marco Pascale and Antonio Rosanova worked on the design, and the two companies filed the patent. Michele Venturino, an Ampr engineer, stressed the possibilities of this new generation of vehicles.
The Porter Npe Safe E-Jet was shown at the Ecomondo fair before several thousand visitors and is aimed mainly at municipalities and sanitation professionals. Altimax and Ampr have not announced a commercial launch date.
