China shifts electric vehicle focus to trucks amid surging fuel costs and geopolitical pressures
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Evelyn Cheng
Summary
China is pivoting its successful electric vehicle strategy from passenger cars to electric trucks, driven by surging shipping and oil costs and geopolitical tensions. Sany Heavy Industry's overseas markets general manager Michael Yue reports that overseas buyers are urgently demanding electric trucks, with one buyer pressing for delivery of 880 units by end of June. The timeline for overseas adoption has collapsed from an expected 3-5 years to immediate need, echoing China's earlier push for new energy passenger cars over a decade ago.
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· 3 pulledBefore the Iran war, overseas adoption of electric trucks was expected to take three to five years.
But now, they need it immediately.
An overseas buyer of around 880 electric trucks pressed Chinese manufacturer Sany to ship all of them by the end of June.
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