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Why charging heavy commercial vehicles isn't passenger-car charging scaled up, but a discipline of its own with its own economics. Who pays for the infrastructure, why the depot becomes an energy asset, and how logistics splits into two very different types.
The grid connection just about covers one e-truck. For five it doesn't, and fixed charging infrastructure is too expensive. I have to stay on diesel. 🛢️
Read more →"I didn't sleep that night," Samuel said, when I asked him on the panel about his first run in an e-truck. Today he smiles about it.
Read more →🚛 Read about e-trucks on LinkedIn and it's all range, megawatt charging, long-haul. But look out the window.
Read more →⚡ Beautiful charging park. The power output checks out too. Now just pull in enough 🚚 trucks, because that is what fills it. But nobody shows up.
Read more →Energy is just an invoice at the end of the month. With diesel, that was right. With electricity, it's a missed opportunity.
Read more →Electrifying heavy-duty transport has surprisingly little to do with electricity. We can deliver it, store it, charge with it and drive on it. But then it really starts...
Read more →In Switzerland, no logistics operator drills for oil in their own yard. And nobody builds a little refinery next to the truck garage. Yet that's exactly what independence would look like.
Read more →LinkedIn bubbles are a strange thing. Mine keeps explaining how easy the switch to electric trucks is. And then publicly wonders why so few are actually doing it.
Read more →Energy has always been a cost factor in trucking, especially diesel. A cost you endure, not a core competence you build. That's changing right now...
Read more →Imagine you have been hauling freight since the nineties. Diesel in your blood, every route memorised.
Read more →Those logistics operators again, why don't they just switch to electric trucks, still not getting it?
Read more →The logistics operator wants to drive, not study energy economics. He wants reliability at a price he knows, not infrastructure he doesn't understand.
Read more →For some logistics operators, the depot is the first stop on a long journey. For others, it is the safe harbour that keeps the entire operation running.
Read more →Charging sounds simple. Plug in, wait, drive off. Until you talk to logistics operators. Then a few kilowatts suddenly become a question of survival.
Read more →There are logistics companies the market builds electrification solutions for. And then there are the others. Mike Ritter calls them the "wild" ones. What he told me changed how I see this market.
Read more →For me trust in charging should be a built in system property and not some fancy marketing words. And sometimes it breaks in real time with real consequences.
Read more →HPC (fast charging) utilisation reaches 9.4% in 2025. And everyone is talking about more charging parks for passenger cars. While quietly, the real solution is emerging somewhere else.
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