The record, complete: 200+ entries
200+ entries across news, case studies, guides, explainers and dossiers covering November 2025 to August 2026 — every entry with its event date and original source. New coverage files here from 2026-08-10 onward.
Ongoing coverage — from 2026-08-10
WattTonne launches: independent, evidence-first media for electric heavy trucks
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Preview: IAA Transportation 2026 (Hanover, 15–20 September) — what fleets should look for
SANY promises a “big splash”; MAN brings series-production MCS; Daimler counters with the Lowliner and a 45,000 km world run. We report from the floor — the SANY preview, MAN, Daimler, Scania.
Monthly briefing editions — the WattTonne Weekly archive
The WattTonne Weekly — January 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, January 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what t…
The WattTonne Weekly — February 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, February 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what …
The WattTonne Weekly — March 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, March 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to …
The WattTonne Weekly — April 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, April 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to …
The WattTonne Weekly — May 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, May 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to wa…
The WattTonne Weekly — June 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, June 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to w…
The WattTonne Weekly — July 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, July 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to w…
The WattTonne Weekly — August 2026, archive edition
The month that shaped electric trucking in Europe, August 2026: the numbers, five things that mattered, and what to…
Standalone stories — 130 entries, January to August 2026
China January–July: 753,000 heavy trucks (+21%) — trade-ins, exports and NEV penetration pull together
August data confirms the year’s trajectory: three engines — replacement-incentive policy, ~35% export growth, and n…
SANY’s ‘big splash’: what to expect from the Chinese challenger at IAA 2026
SANY has promised its biggest European show yet for Hanover — new models including rigids, 2027 previews, and (the …
MAN at IAA 2026: series-production MCS trucks, the new eTGM, and the complete electric ecosystem
MAN’s Hanover stand: the industry’s first series-production MCS tractors (750 kW, nine markets), the eTGM rigid com…
MAN puts MCS-equipped electric trucks into series production — megawatt charging leaves the lab
31 July 2026: MAN becomes the first OEM with megawatt charging in series production. Mercedes tested MCS on a 2,400…
ICCT H1 2026: 3,400 zero-emission heavy trucks (2.3%), Mercedes at 40%, IVECO breaks out, Germany hits 4.6%
30 July 2026: the half-year monitor — ZE heavy trucks up from ~1,900 to ~3,400, Germany’s share at 4.6% on the toll…
Einride buys Flipturn for $38.4M — the charging-software layer joins the stack
29 July 2026: the freshly listed company acquires Flipturn, adding depot-charging management and energy-optimisatio…
Scania at IAA 2026: 750 kW MCS option, Wibax deliveries starting, and the Traton ecosystem
Scania’s Hanover showing pairs its megawatt charging offer (up to 750 kW on 2026 orders) with the start of the 105-…
Scania Q2 2026: 265 BEVs delivered, 321 zero-emission orders, total orders +41%
27 July 2026: Scania’s Q2 — net sales +6% to SEK 53.1bn, adjusted operating margin 11.6%, deliveries +7%, orders +4…
DSV orders 10 Windrose E700s for the US–Mexico I-35 corridor — Windrose lives, in America
23 July 2026: DSV deploys ten Windrose electric trucks on Dallas–Laredo–Monterrey with Allogic and Greenspace E-Mob…
MAN completes the electric range: eTGM rigid for urban and regional distribution, up to 500 km
23 July 2026: alongside H1 results (+8% sales), MAN confirms the eTGM rigid — 500 km class for city and regional du…
Tesla maps 66 US Megacharger sites — Pilot truck stops join, first hubs open summer 2026
Tesla’s heavy-truck charging network takes shape: 66 identified sites across 15 states, a partnership with the larg…
IVECO delivers its first Spanish S-eWay — Disfrimur takes the rigid for Murcia–Alicante
16 July 2026: IVECO’s first fully electric heavy truck in Spain goes to regional logistics operator Disfrimur — the…
Milence opens fourth Dutch hub — built with zero-emission construction equipment
15 July 2026: five 400 kW bays on the A1 at Deurningen-Hengelo, the network’s first hub constructed entirely with e…
China H1 2026: 660,000 heavy trucks (+22%), new-energy up 67.6% — the hangover that wasn’t
First-half data shows China’s heavy-truck market up 22% year-on-year with June at a record 115,000 units — and new-…
NexDash takes first eActros 600 LS units — and plans to sell transformation-as-a-service
3 July 2026: German startup NexDash receives its first long-haul eActros 600 LS tractors — not just to run them, bu…
Renault Trucks launches E-Tech T 780: 660 km, e-axle architecture, 6-yr/720k-km battery warranty
July 2026: the new long-haul E-Tech T flagship — 660 km range covering a full legal driving day, rear e-axle freein…
Renault Trucks doubles down on diesel too: T High 2027 with DE13 R engine to premiere at IAA
1 July 2026: alongside its electric flagship, Renault Trucks will world-premiere the T High 2027 with a new DE13 R …
IVECO S-eWay Artic arrives with CATL LFP and a 10-year/1.2M-km battery warranty
2026: the long-haul S-eWay Artic starts customer deliveries — CATL’s new-generation LFP packs, 653 hp/1,800 Nm, the…
Kempower passes 4,300 MCS charging sessions — megawatt charging leaves the demo stage in usage data
July 2026: alongside first Mega Satellite Flex deliveries, Kempower reports 4,300+ megawatt charging sessions acros…
Qiji’s mid-2026 scoreboard: regional clusters at 121–179 stations, 900-station target in reach
CATL’s truck-swap network reports its densest clusters — Yangtze Delta 179, Sichuan-Chongqing 123, Jingjinji 121, G…
Spain’s incentive gap: IVECO’s first S-eWay arrives into a market with no truck-specific national scheme
July 2026: Disfrimur’s S-eWay Rigid delivery throws Spain’s structural problem into relief — Southern Europe’s bigg…
ICCT Q1 2026: e-trucks at 4.4% of EU registrations — ~3,600 units, buses already at 24%
23 June 2026: first-quarter monitor — electric heavy trucks ~3,600 units at 4.4% share (ACEA basis), zero-emission …
Renault Group takes 100% of Flexis — software-defined electric vans from Sandouville late 2026
18 June 2026: Renault completes the buyout of Volvo Group’s 45% and CMA CGM’s 10% in Flexis, taking the SDV skatebo…
Einride enters refrigerated freight with Scan Sverige — the cold chain gets its electric pilot
June 2026: a service agreement brings Einride’s electric trucks and Saga platform to temperature-controlled logisti…
Eleven ministries set the 2030 frame: 40% NE heavy-truck penetration, 1.6 million on the road, swap stations as standard road infrastructure
June 2026: China’s Ministry of Transport, NDRC and nine other departments jointly issued the Implementation Plan fo…
Kempower powers Ignitis ON’s Baltic charging push — the Baltics join the truck-charging map
12 June 2026: Kempower contributes high-power truck charging to Baltic CPO Ignitis ON’s network expansion — the reg…
Scania lands 105 electric trucks from Wibax — the EU’s largest bulk-transport BEV order
12 June 2026: Nordic chemicals logistics specialist Wibax orders 105 battery-electric Scanias for 20+ depots across…
Einride surges 90% on Nasdaq debut — valuation trims to $1.35B, 30+ enterprise clients, $92M ARR expected
10 June 2026: the market votes on autonomous-electric freight — shares jump as much as 90% on day one, though the f…
Daimler’s IAA plans: eActros Lowliner debut, 80-charging-column record, and a 45,000 km electric circumnavigation
September’s Hanover show will see Mercedes launch the Lowliner, attempt a charging-column record with 80 units, and…
Daimler’s NextGenH2 goes to Dachser — ~100 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, first customer ops end-2026
June 2026: Daimler Truck confirms Dachser as first customer for the NextGenH2 — liquid-hydrogen, cellcentric BZA150…
Milence enters Denmark: Padborg hub opens on the Scandinavian–Mediterranean corridor
9 June 2026: the alliance’s 37th hub — its first in Denmark — opens at the German border with four 400 kW bays, clo…
SANY’s 2026 target: 40,000 electric trucks in China — nearly triple Europe’s entire annualised market
June 2026 factory-visit reporting: SANY has sold ~11,000 e-trucks in China so far this year and targets 40,000 by y…
Mercedes unveils the eActros Lowliner — battery-electric for mega trailers, orders Q3
3 June 2026: the missing link for volume freight — a low fifth-wheel eActros variant (414 or 621 kWh LFP) for maxim…
BloombergNEF Electric Vehicle Outlook 2026: e-buses head for 60% of global sales by 2030 — and 20+ countries already past 50% on city buses
The year’s reference outlook documents the bus market’s completed transition as the template trucks now follow: pol…
China June 2026: 115,000 heavy trucks — a record June, with NEV momentum intact
June set an all-time monthly record for the Chinese heavy-truck market at 115,000 units (+18% YoY), with new-energy…
SANY publishes the e263’s full European specification — 730 kW eAxle, CCS2 400 kW, 42t GCWR
The e263’s official European datasheet is out: dual-motor eAxle peaking at 730 kW, 636 kWh LFP (EVE), CCS2 charging…
Germany opens €1 billion truck-charging funding programme — applications from 26 May 2026
The Federal Transport Ministry’s multi-year programme (to 2029) funds depot and public hubs, grid connections, batt…
Paris to Berlin, 1,000 km all-electric: Milence’s corridor demonstration with four OEMs
May 2026: trucks from Daimler, MAN, Volvo and Renault Trucks drive a 1,000 km all-electric Paris–Berlin route with …
BYD’s European truck push: not a vehicle, an ecosystem — trucks, batteries, charging, energy management
21 May 2026, Handelsblatt conference: BYD Europe’s eTruck chief lays out the full-stack strategy — Blade Battery du…
Milence signs €120M financing facility — truck charging goes to the capital markets
May 2026: infrastructure lenders back the alliance with €120 million on top of €500M founder equity — 34 hubs live …
Kempower Mega Satellite Flex: one dispenser, both CCS (560 kW) and MCS (1.2 MW)
6 May 2026: the first dual-connector megawatt dispenser — serve today’s CCS trucks and tomorrow’s MCS fleet from th…
Scania Q1 2026: orders +10% to 27,318 despite delivery constraints
5 May 2026: Scania’s Q1 shows order intake up 10% on strong European and Brazilian demand while deliveries fell 6% …
ACEA May 2026: truck registrations +10.7% year-to-date — the recovery confirms
May’s release confirmed the year’s trajectory: double-digit year-to-date truck growth as H1 approached, with electr…
BYD’s Hungary plant becomes its European truck base — local assembly as the entry strategy
BYD’s existing Hungarian bus plant is confirmed as the production base for its European electric truck push — blunt…
China May 2026: 30,800 NE heavy trucks, +104% — second-highest month on record
May set the year’s high: 30,800 new-energy heavy trucks (+104% YoY, +10% MoM), taking January–May to 102,600 units …
Kempower powers the Netherlands’ second-largest public truck fast-charging site — WattHub at the Port of Rotterdam
30 April 2026: WattHub’s Kempower-powered site opens at Rotterdam — one of the country’s biggest public truck charg…
Kempower Q1 2026: revenue +54% to €66.8M, record €69M intake — the picks-and-shovels rally
29 April 2026: the Finnish charger maker’s strongest quarter — Europe-outside-Nordics +87%, North America +230%, ba…
Gotion, GPM and Chery plan a 2,000 km Morocco–France electric corridor with swap stations
April 2026: a three-party agreement aims to build a cross-border heavy-duty electric logistics corridor from Morocc…
Volvo starts road-testing hydrogen combustion trucks — HPDI, launch targeted 2030
April 2026: Volvo Trucks begins on-road tests of hydrogen combustion engine trucks using High Pressure Direct Injec…
C&C Trucks: +410% growth in Q1 — 2,000+ bulk deliveries, 1,000 more under contract
April 2026: Chery-backed C&C Trucks reports fifteen consecutive months of 100%+ growth — 2,000+ Q1 deliveries acros…
Kuehne+Nagel starts operations at Milence’s first UK hub — Immingham goes live
April 2026: one of Europe’s largest 3PLs begins charging operations at the Immingham fast-charging hub — the UK’s f…
Einride goes for a $1.8B SPAC listing — $100M raise six weeks earlier, NYSE target H1 2026
April 2026: Sweden’s autonomous-electric freight company announces a SPAC merger with Legato Merger Corp III — $219…
Renault Trucks at the UK Commercial Vehicle Show: conversions, 130 kW charging E-Tech Master, and the workforce question
17 April 2026: Renault Trucks’ NEC Birmingham stand — E-Tech Master Red EDITION tipper (460 km WLTP, 130 kW DC), bo…
Milence timeline: Venlo fully operational — the founding site closes the loop as the network passes 30 hubs
April 2026 marks full operations at Venlo — Milence’s founding site — as the network passes 30 hubs in eight countr…
SANY Robotics takes 600+ European forklift orders at LogiMAT 2026
1 April 2026: SANY’s first LogiMAT appearance converts immediately — purchase agreements with 10+ European distribu…
UK Plug-in Truck Grant tapers from April: £120k peak becomes £81k — plus 100-truck annual cap
1 April 2026: the grant’s January peak ends — caps step down to £15k/£37k/£52k/£81k by weight class, still up to 40…
ACEA Q1 2026: commercial vehicle recovery builds — trucks +10.7% year-to-date by April
ACEA’s spring registration releases track the truck market’s recovery through Q1: double-digit year-to-date growth …
BP Pulse plans first 1 MW truck charger at Ashford International Truckstop — up to 20 MCS points
Spring 2026: BP Pulse announces its first megawatt charger at the new Ashford International Truckstop — with headro…
CATL’s Naxtra sodium-ion goes large-scale in 2026 — swap, trucks, storage all targeted
CATT’s sodium-ion battery line enters mass deployment this year across swap stations, passenger and commercial vehi…
China April 2026: 23,900 NE heavy trucks, 30.2% penetration — back above thirty percent
April rebounded hard: 23,900 new-energy heavy trucks, 30.20% penetration — more than double March’s volume and the …
Decade Energy raises €22M to electrify European logistics depots
April 2026: the depot-electrification startup secures €22 million to build charging infrastructure at logistics dep…
Sinotruk Q1 2026: 87,000 sold, 49,000 exported (+46.9%) — the export champion’s 21st year on top
China National Heavy Duty Truck Group’s Q1: 87,000 trucks sold domestically and abroad, with 49,000 exports (+46.9%…
Volvo claims up to 700 km for the new FH Aero Electric — the range race hits a new number
April 2026: Volvo Trucks’ press materials for the updated FH Aero Electric claim ranges up to 700 km — the highest …
Dobbe runs eActros 600 emission-free in Benelux long-haul
27 March 2026: Dutch haulier Dobbe puts the eActros 600 on Benelux long-distance work — long-haul electric leaving …
Simon Loos orders 75 more eActros 600 — fleet to 210, Europe’s biggest electric operator repeats
25 March 2026: the Dutch logistics group doubles down on its first 75-truck order, taking its electric fleet to 210…
First US megawatt truck charge: Kempower, Windrose and EV Realty complete California session
March 2026: the first documented MCS truck charging session in North America — Kempower’s Mega Satellite, a Windros…
eActros 600 delivers long-distance megawatt-charging data from a 2,400 km run
19 March 2026: Mercedes releases long-distance data from a two-truck, ~2,400 km Germany–Sweden MCS test — the flags…
ICCT’s 2025 scorecard: nearly 24,000 electric trucks and buses registered in Europe — +60% in a falling market
12 March 2026: the first full-year accounting of the CO₂-standards era — electric trucks 4.5% of sales, buses 25%, …
T&E: one in four e-trucks ever registered in Europe was sold after the July 2025 CO₂ target
Transport & Environment’s March analysis: electric share hit 5.6% of new truck sales in the twelve months after the…
Cargo-Partner puts two eActros 300 into regional service
11 March 2026: the international logistics provider adds two Mercedes eActros 300 tractors to its short-haul fleet …
Reuters: six-plus Chinese truckmakers plan European entry in 2026 — up to 30% cheaper, ‘three years ahead’
10 March 2026: Reuters’ industry investigation — BYD, Farizon, SANY, Sinotruk, Windrose, SuperPanther and more targ…
Shacman: NEV sales +64% in Jan–Feb, X6000 platform cleared EU WVTA — China’s No.3 goes European
Shaanxi Automobile’s new-energy trucks reached 2,262 units in January–February (+64% YoY), while the X6000 4×2 trac…
Shacman’s 2026 Premium Service Program: 5-year engine warranty, replace-not-repair, free NEV safety inspections
March 2026: Shaanxi Automobile’s service offensive — five-year extended warranty on key engine components, a two-ye…
Milence opens fourth Belgian hub at Volvo’s Ghent factory — MCS next, tariff €0.379
The 4 March opening at North Sea Port puts Belgium’s fourth Milence hub next to the Volvo Trucks plant: four 400 kW…
China March 2026: 10,400 NE heavy trucks (23.3%) — the quiet month before the April jump
March: 10,400 new-energy heavy trucks at 23.30% penetration. On the surface the softest share since late 2024 — in …
Foton’s Cavan Beacon: the cyber-styled electric heavy truck with Bosch Ventures backing launches
Q1 2026: Foton and Bosch Ventures/Boyuan Capital’s joint Cavan brand unveils the Beacon — streamlined cab, camera m…
Iberdrola launches Spain’s first 1 MW truck chargers in Murcia
March 2026: the Spanish utility switches on its first megawatt-class MCS chargers in Murcia — Southern Europe’s fir…
SuperPanther picks the ex-MAN/Steyr plant in Austria — Chinese e-trucks, made in Europe
SuperPanther will assemble electric trucks at the former MAN/Steyr facility in Austria — the local-assembly playboo…
UK’s £1 billion package: Depot Charging Scheme funds 70% of infrastructure to £1M per site
March 2026: the Department for Transport’s billion-pound zero-emission truck package — depot charging grants at up …
UK consultation on ending diesel HGV sales by 2040 closes — the framework year begins
March 2026: the government’s consultation on phasing out new non-zero-emission HGV sales — options for sub-26t by 2…
eActros 600 becomes first electric tractor to complete the Nordkapp Challenge — in February
5 February 2026: a Mercedes eActros 600 finished the eNordkapp Challenge to Europe’s northernmost point — mid-winte…
ACEA February 2026: truck registrations tick up as recovery gathers
February’s release showed the truck market’s recovery gathering pace into spring — volumes building toward the Q1 t…
CharIN publishes IEC TS 63379 — megawatt charging gets its global interoperability rulebook
February 2026: the international standard defining MCS connectors and cable assemblies — pin design, safety require…
China February 2026: 7,435 NE heavy trucks (26.2%) as heavy-truck market grows 14.3%
February’s short month: 7,435 new-energy heavy trucks at 26.16% penetration, while the overall heavy-truck market g…
The 2026 forecasts converge: 35–45% NE heavy-truck penetration in China this year
Industry forecasts assembled at the year’s start put China’s 2026 new-energy heavy-truck penetration at 35–45% — a …
Finland’s first public MCS truck charger opens at the Port of HaminaKotka — 1.8 MW site
January 2026: Plugit × Kempower commission the Mussalo site at Kotka — three 600 kW power units feeding four CCS an…
China’s December 2025: 45,300 electric heavy trucks, 53.9% penetration — the month the majority flipped
December 2025 was the first month in history where most heavy trucks sold in China were new-energy: 45,300 units, 5…
Kaufland teams with Milence on retail charging hubs — 100% green power, nine trucks, 700 tonnes CO₂e a year
Germany’s Kaufland becomes the first food retailer with a dedicated Milence hub at its Barsinghausen distribution c…
XCMG opens 2026 with global dispatches — 300+ electric forklifts to Europe, 120-tonne electric mining trucks out
January–February 2026: the group’s international shipments span aerial platforms, sanitation trucks, electric port …
Beiben launches 16 V5 models — 90% new energy, 3.5C Huawei megawatt charging, 12,000-unit target
January 2026: Beiben Heavy Truck’s partner conference unveiled 16 new V5 models — 14 of them new-energy — with 600+…
Milence switches to market-based pricing: Belgium €0.379, France €0.339 per kWh from 1 January
The truck-charging alliance replaces its flat pan-European tariff with country-level, market-based pricing from 1 J…
ACEA January 2026: commercial vehicle registrations open the year steady — truck market stable, electric share building
ACEA’s January commercial-vehicle release opened 2026 with the truck market stable after 2025’s +9.8% year, vans re…
China January 2026: 16,100 NE heavy trucks, 33.2% penetration — the post-spike hangover that stayed modest
January data shows China’s new-energy heavy truck sales at 16,100 units with 33.18% penetration — down from Decembe…
CNHTC targets 340,000 domestic sales for 2026 — and names hydrogen + new energy as the growth vectors
China National Heavy Duty Truck Group’s 2026 plan: 340,000 domestic vehicle sales on the back of a record ~300,000 …
EUTRACO’s 54 electric trucks and 14.4 MW — Europe’s most instructive private fleet, profiled
Background record (2025–26): the Belgian logistics group’s 54-truck electric fleet runs on its own 14.4 MW charging…
Germany’s THG quota tightens for 2026: 12% obligation, stricter crediting — and what charging operators earn
From January 2026, Germany’s greenhouse-gas reduction quota rises to 12% with revised crediting rules — including 0…
Green-Methane Alliance launches aggregated zero-emission trucking procurement in Texas
January 2026: a shipper coalition initiates joint procurement for zero-emission freight in Texas — multiyear offtak…
Huawei’s megawatt charging enters heavy trucks — Beiben’s 3.5C option and the supplier’s platform play
Huawei’s megawatt-level supercharging technology debuts in commercial vehicles through partners like Beiben (3.5C r…
EU AFIF second phase funds 19 heavy-vehicle charging projects — ~2,000 points at 350 kW+, ~600 at 1 MW
2026: the second AFIF funding wave spreads truck charging across 11 member states — the EU’s co-funding machinery s…
Alpitronic’s HYC1000: the Italian fast-charge leader’s megawatt truck system
Alpitronic — the dominant European fast-charging hardware brand — fields its 1 MW-class HYC1000 for heavy trucks, b…
DFDS puts electric trucks on Benelux routes — the ferry-and-logistics group charges at Milence’s Antwerp hub
DFDS — the Danish ferry and logistics group — is operating electric trucks on Benelux routes, photographed charging…
Dongfeng launches the G-Series — a high-end heavy-truck brand with electric variants
2026: China’s Dongfeng unveils its G-Series premium heavy-truck line at its annual summit, including battery-electr…
Dongfeng’s international push: new G-Series plus overseas expansion in the group’s 2026 plan
Dongfeng pairs its new premium G-Series launch with an expanded international strategy for 2026 — the last of China…
Enova’s 2026 Landtransport programmes: what Norwegian fleets can actually claim
Norway’s 2026 support architecture for electric trucks: project grants through Enova’s Landtransport schemes — vehi…
EVE Energy: the quiet battery supplier inside Europe’s Chinese truck wave
EVE Energy’s LFP cells power the SANY e263 and a growing share of Chinese commercial-vehicle exports — the second-t…
FAW Jiefang: NEV sales growth above 200% — China’s oldest truck maker accelerates its electric pivot
FAW Jiefang’s new-energy truck sales grew by more than 200% year-on-year through 2026, per company and industry rep…
France’s ZFE zones tighten through 2026 — the quiet force electrifying French urban trucking
France’s low-emission zones expand restrictions through 2026 across Paris, Lyon, Marseille and other metros — conve…
Germany approves €1.6 billion for motorway truck charging: 725 CCS + 685 MCS points at 124 rest areas
2026: the first national rollout phase funds charging at 124 unserviced motorway rest areas — 725 CCS and 685 megaw…
H.Essers electrifies: one of Belgium’s biggest 3PLs puts electric trucks on its network
H.Essers — one of Belgium’s largest family logistics groups — has joined the electrification wave with electric tru…
JAC’s NEV truck programme scales through 2026 — light-to-heavy coverage from China’s export veteran
JAC Motors — one of China’s most experienced commercial-vehicle exporters — expanded its new-energy truck range thr…
McKinsey’s infrastructure bill: Europe needs €7bn of truck charging by 2030 — and €40bn by 2040
The consultancy’s infrastructure estimates put hard numbers on the build-out: €7 billion this decade and €40 billio…
Milence’s Antwerp Ketenis hub — the 20-bay site that anchored Belgium’s charging map
Background record: the Ketenis hub at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges — 20 bays, CCS 400 kW, all brands, MCS now live wi…
Landvetter: Sweden’s first public MCS — Gothenburg anchors Nordic megawatt charging
Background record: Milence’s Landvetter site near Gothenburg became Sweden’s first public megawatt charging locatio…
Milence’s MILES project: 284 MCS points at 71 locations across 10 EU states by 2027
The alliance’s EU-co-funded MILES programme is the largest single MCS deployment plan in Europe — Austria, Belgium,…
Zwolle: Milence’s first public megawatt charging site — the Netherlands gets MCS before most of Europe
Background record (2025–26): the Zwolle hub became one of the first public megawatt charging locations in Europe — …
Ninatrans and the sceptics: what Europe’s electric holdouts need to be convinced
The Benelux’s thoughtful sceptics — mid-size family fleets publicly unconvinced by electric TCO — are the market’s …
Poland’s heavy-vehicle funding question: NaszEauto covers cars — the truck scheme the industry is lobbying for
Poland’s PLN 1.6 billion NaszEauto programme pays up to PLN 40,000 per vehicle — for cars under PLN 225,000, leavin…
Power Electronics: the Spanish partner behind the 1.1 MW Milence test — and its own 1.44 MW line
Power Electronics, the Valencia-based power-conversion specialist, co-delivered the 1.1 MW megawatt test with Milen…
Roland Berger’s 2026 trucking outlook: electrification’s economics turn on duty cycles, not technology
Roland Berger’s commercial-vehicle analysis for 2026 frames the industry’s electric transition as an economics-and-…
Toyota and Sinotruk sign hydrogen-technology agreement — with EU-compliant trucks planned
2026: the strategic partnership pairs Toyota’s fuel-cell leadership with China’s heavy-truck export champion — hydr…
Van Moer Logistics electrifies Antwerp operations — the port’s homegrown haulier goes electric
Van Moer Logistics, the Antwerp-based family group, is deploying electric trucks in its port and regional operation…
Windrose’s Antwerp collapse — the event that reset European electric trucking’s trust baseline
Background record (2025–26): unpaid wages, roughly 20 deliveries against ~200 claimed orders, and the collapse of t…
DB Schenker’s 150-truck MAN eTGX order — the framework deal that defines 3PL electrification
Background record (2025–26): DB Schenker ordered 150 MAN eTGX tractors — Europe’s largest single e-truck framework …
WattEV’s San Bernardino depot: 11.5 MW, 30 CCS ports, six 1.2 MW megawatt ports — the US depot archetype
Background record (2025): WattEV commissioned its San Bernardino truck-charging depot with 11.5 MW site capacity, t…
Einride’s autonomous Sweden–Norway border run with PostNord — driverless freight crosses a frontier
Background record (late 2025): an Einride truck completed what the company calls the first fully autonomous cross-b…
Siemens’ SICHARGE FLEX and the OMV order — 1.68 MW architecture heads to Austrian motorways
Background record (October 2025): Siemens introduced SICHARGE FLEX (480 kW–1.68 MW, up to four MCS points per syste…
ABB’s MCS1200 — the first megawatt charger from a global electrification major
Background record (April 2025): ABB’s MCS1200 entered the market as the first megawatt charging system from a globa…
Jacky Perrenot takes its first MAN eTGX — France’s family logistics giant joins the electric ranks
Background record (April 2025): the Perrenot Group received its first eTGX tractor — a marker for France’s large fa…
Amazon’s 200 eActros 600 order — the order that started the volume era
Background record (January 2025): Amazon’s order for 200 Mercedes eActros 600s was, at announcement, the largest si…
Hongyan H6: the first Chinese BEV tractor through WVTA testing — the 2024 milestone that opened the race
Background record (May 2024): SAIC Hongyan’s H6 battery-swap tractor became the first Chinese battery-electric trac…
Deep analysis (long-form)
AanZET 2026: €78 million opened in January, second window 29 September — how Dutch fleets actually capture it
The Netherlands’ AanZET grant pays up to €115,200 per zero-emission truck, first-come. With the second 20…
Flanders and the Netherlands switch on CO₂-graded truck tolls — the €0.166/km argument
Since 1 July 2026, a zero-emission truck pays roughly €0.038 per kilometre where a diesel pays €0.204 — a…
CATL and Octopus Energy launch 50:50 swap venture — Europe’s charging-vs-swap fight gets serious
The Swaptopus joint venture pairs CATL’s Qiji swap hardware with Octopus’s Kraken energy platform, target…
China’s 2025: 231,100 electric heavy trucks, 53.9% December penetration — the scale Europe keeps misreading
China sold more new-energy heavy trucks in 2025 than Europe has registered in its entire history. What ac…
The ‘staircase’ ruling: EU freezes −15% to 2029, then drops −45% in 2030
The EU Council’s 30 March amendment reshaped the compliance calendar for truck makers — and quietly defin…
EU electric truck registrations up 47.7% in H1 2026 — the acceleration is real, the base is small
ACEA’s half-year data shows electric trucks growing six times faster than the overall EU truck market, ye…
Germany locks electric truck toll exemption to mid-2031 — six years of planning certainty
The Fourth Toll Amendment Act, in force since December 2025, exempts zero-emission trucks over 4.25t from…
IAA Transportation 2026 preview: Hanover becomes the electric trucking checkpoint
15–20 September, Hanover: SANY promises a ‘big splash’, European OEMs defend home ground with megawatt ch…
ING and ICCT map the road to 2030: 290,000–400,000 electric trucks — and the depot fleets got there first
The forecasters agree on the destination: 290,000–340,000 e-trucks on European roads by 2030 (ICCT), up t…
Q1 2026: Europe passed 6,300 electric truck registrations in one quarter
ICCT tracking shows the first quarter of 2026 already delivering more than 6,300 electric trucks — and 20…
SANY e263 goes to work in Germany — the Chinese landing is no longer a forecast
Since spring 2026 the first large Chinese electric tractor push in Europe is operational: 636 kWh EVE bat…
UK raises Plug-in Truck Grant to £120,000 — then schedules the taper
January’s £18m top-up lifted the UK’s electric truck grant to £120,000 for the largest rigs; from April 2…
The Windrose aftershock: how one collapsed startup reset what European fleets demand as proof
Unpaid wages, roughly 20 deliveries against 200 claimed orders, a collapsed Antwerp operation. Windrose d…
Europe’s e-truck sales boom while the charging network lags far behind
Electric truck sales in Europe jumped 47% in H1 2026, yet public truck-dedicated charging remains far short of what the EU’s 2030 CO2 targets require.
Europe’s e-truck market accelerates, but 2030 CO2 hinges on charging
The European heavy-duty electric truck market is no longer a pilot project — but whether the 2030 CO2 targets are met depends on charging infrastructure and regulatory flexibility.
E-truck rollout outpaces its charging grid — the gap is now years
Electric heavy-truck sales grew 47% year-on-year in H1 2026, but the public charging network is being built at a pace that will miss the 2030 CO2 targets by a wide margin.
EU e-truck sales will grow in 2026 — but charging is the constraint
The decisive factor for the next stage of adoption is no longer the availability of trucks — it is charging infrastructure, not vehicle supply.
E-truck charging moves from pilot to bankable network — the gap
The infrastructure build-out is no longer the primary bottleneck; the bottleneck is how fast announced corridors turn into operational reality.
E-truck growth is real, but 2026 policy doesn’t fix the charging gap
The single most important constraint on growth is no longer vehicle cost or range — it is the availability of charging infrastructure.
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