The month in numbers

Milence: 30+ hubs, 8 countries · UK PiTG peak £120k ended 31 March (now £81k)

Five things that mattered

Kuehne+Nagel anchored the UK’s first Milence hub. Immingham went live with a named global 3PL charging daily — Britain’s corridor layer opened while its grants peaked.

Venlo closed the loop. Milence’s founding site went fully operational; the network passed 30 hubs in eight countries.

Volvo fired up hydrogen combustion. HPDI road tests began — 2030 launch target. This decade stays battery; the endgame just got more plural.

A 2,000 km Morocco–France corridor was signed. Gotion, GPM and Chery chose battery swap for the first intercontinental electric freight route — 100 trucks to start.

SHACMAN showed the export machine. ~5,000 units/month of overseas shipments and TÜV-verified fuel-economy data: China’s heavy-truck export push is industrial policy with a price list.

What to watch next month

May: the €120M Milence facility and the Paris–Berlin tour — infrastructure meets the capital markets and the photo opportunity in the same month.

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