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by louwrentius 348 days ago
Yes, I thought I linked to the English channel.

I'm in The Netherlands and I feel that we aren't even close to the level of adoption of electric trucks as in Germany.

Maybe it's easier to justify the investments for a much larger country/market.
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morsch 348 days ago
> the level of adoption of electric trucks as in Germany

2.4%[1], which is more than I would have guessed, but I think that number includes delivery vehicles. For semis, it's 0.4% (and 2% of new registrations in Q1 2025). So, still a long way to go.

That's for vehicles registered in Germany. Half of the heavy trucks on the Autobahn are registered elsewhere[2], which makes sense given geography -- I guess it's similar in the Netherlands.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrolastkraftwagen#Deutschl... but the source is government data

[2] https://company.toll-collect.de/de/magazin/lkw-verkehr-deuts... roughly; 5 years ago

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bgnn 347 days ago
I've not even seen one on the streets in NL. I think it makes a lot of sense for deliveries within the country considering the distances. There seems to be a subsidy of of max 115k [1] (In Dutch). I'm surprised that big companies aren't selling their old fleet to lower income countries and buy wlectric trucks.

[1] https://www.rabobank.nl/bedrijven/groei/duurzaamheid/elektri...

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lars_francke 348 days ago
You did. I'm sorry, my bad.

He has a german channel which has more and longer content: https://www.youtube.com/@elektrotrucker

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