Background record: Windrose Technology’s European operation in Antwerp collapsed through 2025 amid unpaid wages and a delivery record of roughly 20 trucks against around 200 publicly claimed orders — the highest-profile failure of the electric-truck startup wave, at the address of one of Europe’s largest ports.

The collapse’s significance exceeds one company: it repriced trust for the entire category. Fleet procurement teams added a due-diligence layer — type-approval documents, registration-backed delivery counts, written warranties, workshop addresses, callable reference customers — that applies with particular severity to Chinese entrants, fairly or not. SANY’s professional objection-handling (Putzmeister, Alltrucks, written warranty) and its remaining sins (no published price, unnamed customers) both exist in Windrose’s shadow.

The story has a transatlantic coda: DSV’s July 2026 order of ten Windrose E700s for the US–Mexico corridor shows the company delivering real trucks under new scrutiny elsewhere. Our standing file keeps both facts visible: the Antwerp record as the cautionary baseline, the I-35 deployment as the evidence test now running. Evidence or nothing — in both directions.