Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of content-scraping AI, antisocial media, inflation, and other hurdles.

By Ray Wills and Peter Newman

If the electric car was the opening chapter of China’s transport transition, battery-electric heavy trucks are the next — and it is now moving from promise to industrial reality.

And this is happening inside the fastest energy transition in human history.

For global oil, that matters: freight is diesel’s last great stronghold, and China is now eroding it at industrial scale.