Recently, the Financial Times (FT), the UK's authoritative media outlet, published two reports  consecutively, focusing on SANY TRUCK's robust performance in overseas markets and its potential to drive global decarbonization.

The First Feature:

Sany’s Electric Trucks Drive Latest Chinese Assault on Global Auto Market

The report indicated that SANY TRUCK is propelling China's latest advancement in the global automotive market.

Excerpt:

China’s biggest electric-truck maker says it is targeting growth overseas in a fresh challenge to the global auto industry, as Chinese production of high-tech, low-cost, battery-powered heavy goods vehicles booms.

Liang Linhe, who leads the electric trucking division of Sany Group, a construction and mining equipment behemoth, expects about half the group’s sales to come from overseas markets by 2030, up from about 10 per cent this year.  

“We are already seeing the rapid development of the overseas market,” he told the Financial Times in an interview, adding that the “biggest challenge” was that many countries’ electricity infrastructure lagged that of China.

The Chinese group launched its electric truck business in 2021 and has won a market share of about 16 per cent domestically. The group expects annual sales of about 30,000 electric trucks for 2025, mostly in China. It has opened an electric truck factory in South Africa this year, is scouting for land in Brazil for a second overseas operation and has begun selling its vehicles in Europe.

The electric shift has been much slower outside of China, with electric trucks accounting for 3.6 per cent of the European market for the first half of the year due to a lack of investment in charging infrastructure and electricity grids, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. While volumes are much smaller, sales of electric trucks are steadily increasing in countries such as Brazil, Canada, and South Africa.

Liang, however, expected many operators to be subsumed into bigger fleets as the electric transition gathers pace. Sany, he added, invested about 8 per cent of its revenues into research and development for Changsha’s battery production, solar-powered battery swapping and charging networks across China, as well as driverless technology.

“This is our core technology,” he said, adding, “Many partners from overseas markets are very interested, including from the United States.”

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After the initial report garnered significant traction, the Financial Times published a follow-up article:

A Window to a Future Where China Wins the Green Race"

turning the spotlight on SANY TRUCK once more

Excerpt:

A few weeks ago a colleague and I travelled to Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan province, to take a glimpse at the future of trucking and logistics.

Inside a new $3bn industrial park on the city’s outskirts Sany group, which is already China’s biggest producer of construction equipment, a highly automated factory is churning out tens of thousands of battery-powered trucks as well as solar-powered battery charging and swapping stations.

“We can see the trend of the future will be focused on decarbonisation,” Liang Linhe, who leads Sany’s electric trucking division, told us in his office adjacent to the factory. 

Sany is among a clutch of Chinese groups overhauling the trucking industry at home and maybe elsewhere soon. Electric trucks in China are expected to outsell diesel trucks in the next three years and local companies are already investing in sales networks and manufacturing around the world. 

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The year of 2025 is pivotal for SANY TRUCK's comprehensive acceleration of its "industrial globalization". The company is focused on building "Five Major Systems" encompassing dedicated organizations, teams, channels, clients, and service & parts networks, committed to developing new energy heavy trucks with global competitiveness.

SANY TRUCK is willing to join hands with global partners to jointly promote the green and intelligent transformation of the commercial vehicle industry, assisting customers in achieving a win-win scenario for both economic and environmental benefits.

Reprinted from SANY Group WeChat Official Account and Financial Times Official Website