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Last month, Australian company Janus Electric exhibited a converted Volvo ‘road-train,’ a cab-over class-8 electric truck, pulling two trailers full of lithium, weighing 115 tonnes, and described by CEO Lex Forsyth as the “heaviest road-going electric truck in the world”. 

Electric trucking is hard. EV trucks are beginning to make it to market, but sales have been slow.

Support for truck charging throughout Europe has been lacklustre: according to McKinsey research, there are around 10,000 chargers today, and some €7bn ($7.22bn) will need ...

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