cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/60717426

China’s EV manufacturers have a new target market in mind: commercial trucks.

Europe’s legacy heavy-duty trucking segment could soon face some serious competition.

Trucks built by Chinese automakers could beat out current battery-electric truck prices by 30%.

  • VoiHyvaLuojaMitaNyt@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Yeah, I’ll admit it was a one sided take, I’m a truck driver so I look at it from a drivers point of view. If I have to sit in a cab for 9-11 hours per day and then sleep in it, I’ll always choose a Euro model.

    And the fact is, Chinese products will always be cheaper than European ones, manufacturing costs are wildly different between the places. Euro EV trucks have excellent tech in them, maybe the actual manufacturing pace is lagging behind thats true. But even if we had switched to making only EV trucks, the price difference would still be there.