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2025 Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks and Charging Stations: Opportunities and Challenges in the Green Transformation
Release Date: December 27, 2024
In 2025, the electric heavy-duty truck and charging station industry is facing an important turning point in the green transformation. Driven by the "dual carbon" goals, policies, markets, and technology are converging to create significant opportunities for the development of electric heavy-duty trucks.
However, with opportunities come challenges. Issues such as range anxiety, slow charging speeds, and high costs remain urgent problems to be addressed. As a provider of new energy heavy-duty truck charging solutions, HARDHITTER will combine the current state of the industry to discuss future trends and share our solutions.
I. Policy and Market Drivers Create Development Opportunities for Electric Heavy-Duty Trucks
Under the guidance of the "dual carbon" goals, national and local governments have introduced policies to vigorously support the development of new energy vehicles. Electric heavy-duty trucks, as major emitters of pollutants, have become key targets for policy support. For example, regions such as Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei provide traffic convenience for new energy heavy-duty trucks, and Shanghai gives priority to issuing truck permits for pure electric heavy-duty trucks.
1、Policy Support:
The Ministry of Transport has issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Promotion and Application of New Energy Vehicles," encouraging the priority use of new energy vehicles in public transportation and logistics distribution fields, and providing corresponding financial subsidies and tax incentives.
At the same time, the logistics industry's demand for green transportation is also growing rapidly. The rapid development of e-commerce and express delivery industries has driven the application of electric heavy-duty trucks in urban distribution. In addition, the use of electric heavy-duty trucks in specific scenarios such as ports and mines is gradually increasing.
2、Market Applications:
Ports such as Xiamen and Qingdao have begun to use electric heavy-duty trucks in bulk for cargo transportation. For example, Xiamen Port plans to increase the proportion of electric heavy-duty trucks used to over 50% by 2025.
II. Technological Breakthroughs Improve Heavy-Duty Truck Range and Charging Speed
1、Battery Technology:
By 2025, battery technology will further break through, with battery energy density increasing to over 300Wh/kg, and costs will further decrease, expected to fall below 0.6 yuan/Wh. New battery technologies such as solid-state batteries are expected to achieve commercial application, with battery energy density reaching over 400Wh/kg, further improving the range and safety of electric heavy-duty trucks. It is expected that by 2025, the range of electric heavy-duty trucks will also exceed 600 kilometers, even reaching 800 kilometers.
2、Charging Technology:
In terms of charging technology, high-power charging technology will develop rapidly, and high-power charging piles of 360kW and above will gradually become popular, further shortening charging times. The battery swap model will also be more widely applied, with the construction speed of battery swap stations accelerating and swap times further shortened.
3、Vehicle Design:
The overall design of electric heavy-duty trucks will also mature, with further reduction in vehicle weight and improvement in energy efficiency. At the same time, the intelligence level of electric heavy-duty trucks continues to improve, and autonomous driving technology is expected to achieve commercial application in specific scenarios, such as ports and mines.
III. Challenges Remain, with Range, Charging Speed, and Cost as Constraints
Despite the rapid development momentum of electric heavy-duty trucks, challenges cannot be ignored.
1、Range Anxiety:
Although battery technology continues to advance, the range of electric heavy-duty trucks is still limited compared to traditional fuel trucks, especially in long-distance trunk transport scenarios, where range anxiety remains a concern.
2、Slow Charging Speed:
Although high-power charging technology is developing rapidly, the charging speed of electric heavy-duty trucks is still slower than refueling. Especially during peak hours, the problem of insufficient number of charging piles and slow charging speeds will become more prominent.
3、High Costs:
Although battery costs are constantly decreasing, the purchase cost of electric heavy-duty trucks is still higher than that of traditional fuel trucks.
In addition, the high cost of building and operating charging piles also increases the cost pressure on charging station operators.
4、Explosive Demand for Charging Piles, Uneven Layout Issues Are Obvious
The large-scale commercialization of electric heavy-duty trucks will drive an explosive growth in the demand for heavy-duty truck charging piles. It is estimated that by 2025, the number of heavy-duty truck charging piles nationwide will reach tens of thousands. By then, the layout of charging piles will be relatively complete, covering highway service areas, logistics parks, urban distribution centers, and other scenarios. However, the current layout of heavy-duty truck charging piles is still uneven, with some areas having low utilization rates of charging piles, while others lack sufficient numbers to meet user needs.
5、The Importance of Refined Operation Strategies Becomes More Prominent
To solve the problem of uneven charging pile layout, government, enterprises, and all sectors of society need to work together. The government should strengthen overall planning, promote rational layout of charging piles, avoid excessive concentration or dispersion, form a balanced network of heavy-duty truck charging, and improve the utilization rate of charging piles. At the same time, operators of heavy-duty truck charging stations need to actively explore diversified profit channels, such as establishing partnerships with logistics companies and transport fleets, to improve the utilization rate of charging piles. In addition, charging pile companies should increase investment in technological research and development, introduce more efficient charging solutions, reduce charging waiting time, and enhance user experience.
To achieve comprehensive popularization of electric heavy-duty trucks and charging piles, breakthroughs must be made in range, charging speed, and cost. Governments and enterprises need to increase investment in research and development of battery technology, charging technology, and vehicle technology, continuously improve the technical level of electric heavy-duty trucks, reduce costs, and improve user experience.
IV. HARDHITTER Heavy-Duty Truck Charging Piles, Leaders in Heavy-Duty Truck Charging Solutions
1、Heavy-Duty Truck Charging Pile Products:
In the green revolution of the electric heavy-duty truck industry, HARDHITTER provides comprehensive support for electric heavy-duty trucks. Our products cover:
Charging power is allocated according to demand, improving charging efficiency and charging station utilization, reducing power loss. Modular design allows for smooth capacity expansion and reduces initial investment costs. Charging guns can be flexibly upgraded to liquid-cooled superchargers or chaoji standard charging guns, enabling multi-gun simultaneous charging to meet the diverse needs of different types of heavy-duty truck charging stations.
Ultra-high power charging allows heavy-duty trucks and mining trucks to charge quickly. A project in Inner Mongolia achieved a charging power of 1.8 megawatts, with a charging current of 1800A, allowing heavy-duty trucks to complete fast charging in just over 20 minutes. Charging time is significantly reduced, and operational efficiency is greatly improved.
Ultra-high power, highly integrated. Skid-mounted design allows for quick deployment, can be towed, and can be moved as needed according to the project. In a project in Inner Mongolia, the charging power was 2.4 megawatts, with a maximum continuous charging current of 600A per gun, and a maximum current of 2400A when four guns worked simultaneously.
With a rich product line and configuration options, we can meet the current demand for high power and short charging times of electric heavy-duty trucks, providing flexible and diverse charging solutions for operators.
2、One-Stop Service:
We provide one-stop services from site selection consultation, site planning, equipment configuration to construction. According to your needs, we offer customized charging solutions to ensure that each project precisely matches actual needs, maximizing the economic benefits and operational efficiency of the charging station.
Combined with HARDHITTER's self-developed charging cloud platform, you can obtain real-time data on the operation of the charging station, optimize operational strategies, accumulate user data, truly own and use the data, and help you enhance your regional brand influence.
V. Conclusion
In 2025, electric heavy-duty trucks and heavy-duty truck charging stations will both face critical periods of development. Opportunities and challenges coexist; those who seize the opportunities will be able to occupy a place in the future market competition.
In the future, with the advancement of technology and policy support, electric heavy-duty trucks and heavy-duty truck charging stations will jointly promote the green transformation of the transportation field, contributing to sustainable development.