← All analysis & guides Country guide · United Kingdom UK fleet guide: £81,000 grants, depot charging money, and the 2040 diesel endgame Britain pays up to £81,000 per large electric truck from April 2026 (down from £120,000 in Q1), funds 70% of depot charging, and is consulting on ending new diesel HGV sales by […]
← News archive News · 2026 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 — hydrogen heavy trucks compliant with EU ECE R134 standards targeted, adding a new dimension to the China-Europe technology relationship. 2026 · WattTonne news desk […]
← All case studies · Charging vs Swap framework Case study · United Kingdom · Battery swap Case: Swaptopus, UK — CATL × Octopus and the grid-revenue answer to swap’s utilisation problem A 50:50 venture pairing Qiji swap hardware with Octopus’s Kraken energy trading, targeting UK super-hubs from 2027 and 30+ stations by 2035. The […]
← All analysis & guides Policy 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 2026 caps step down to £81,000. London also opened consultation on ending diesel HGV sales by 2040. Britain is paying […]
← News archive News · 2026-04 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 first Milence site and a named-fleet anchor for British corridor charging. 2026-04-20 · WattTonne news desk · archive edition […]
← News archive News · 2026-04 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 headroom for up to 20 MCS chargers. The UK’s corridor layer gets a second […]
← News archive News · 2026-04 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% YoY) taking 48.5% of China’s heavy-truck export share. New energy and hydrogen strategies accelerate; EU ECE […]
← News archive News · 2026-04-01 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% of purchase price, with per-customer limits of 100 trucks per year from […]
← News archive News · 2026-03 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 to 70% of costs (max £1M per site), vehicle grants continuing at £81,000 for the largest trucks, and […]
← News archive News · 2026-03 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 2035 and all diesel HGVs by 2040 — closed for responses. Legislation shaping starts; residual-value planners take […]
