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MAN flips the switch, adds electric trucks to its production line (m.arenaev.com)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours 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.

[–] cyrano 18 points 9 hours ago

I read MAN as Man and got confused 😵‍💫

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

who is this man?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

That's uncle Phil. He's off his meds.