Half of the heavy vehicles in China could be electric by 2028.

Electric mobility is indeed here to stay, and the president of Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), a Chinese battery manufacturer, has now revealed that half of the heavy truck sales in China could be electric vehicles by 2028.

Zeng Yuqun, who spoke to journalists at the launch of a battery swapping station for heavy vehicles

CATL recently announced that it has put into production a 60-gigawatt-hour energy storage base and battery production for electric vehicles in Shandong, its first facility of this kind in northern China.

A second and third phase of the project will advance in the next two years, forming a battery cluster for the energy industry in what is one of the largest investments in the region, as announced by CATL on the social network “WeChat.”