German truck manufacturer MAN has begun mass production of its new electric trucks, building them alongside diesel models on the same assembly line.
  • cron@feddit.org
    8·
    14 days ago

    MAN produces around 100,000 trucks per year. They plan to produce about 1,000 electric trucks in the second half of this year, which suggests that going forward, about 1 in 50 new MAN trucks will be electric.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      14 days ago

      It’ll probably ramp up over time. Even US EV adoption is continuing. With ~4M EVs (not including hybrids) on the road in 2024 compared to ~2M in 2022. This is still only like 1.4% of US cars but hey gotta start somewhere.

      • cron@feddit.org
        3·
        14 days ago

        Oh it will definitely ramp up. Still it was interesting to calculate what market share they estimated.

        Currently, we still have relatively few fastcharging stations designed for large trucks. Often electric trucks need to charge on car charging points.

        We’ll probably see both the truck charging stations and electric trucks grow at a pace similar (or a little faster) than electric cars.