China plans to repeat its electric car success story — this time with trucks. As shipping and oil costs surged this year, an overseas buyer of around 880 electric trucks pressed Chinese manufacturer Sany to ship all of them by the end of June, according to Michael Yue, general manager of overseas markets for Sany Heavy Industry’s electric truck division. Before the Iran war, overseas adoption of electric trucks was expected to take three to five years, Yue told me last week. “But now, they need it immediately.” Our conversation came just days after China’s Ministry of Transport called for new energy heavy trucks to ... (full story)