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Electric Trucks: Waiting for the World
Truckmakers have built the zero-emission truck. Now they need the infrastructure, economics and customers to match.
By Mukul Yudhveer Singh
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Building the electric truck turned out to be the easy part.
More than 60 zero-emission truck models are now on sale in Europe, according to Daimler Truck CEO Karin Rådström, yet electric trucks made up only around 2% of registrations there in 2025. What is missing is everything that lets a fleet operator run one profitably – a total cost of ownership that beats diesel, a charger on the route, a grid connection at the depot. Suppliers, some of whom have already written off investments made for electric volumes that never materialised, are growing wary of betting on the ...
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