I drive
Heavy trucks on European roads, in every season. I feel the winter range, the charging stop and the rest rules myself.
Who you are talking to
Bart Van den Keybus, AVIGUS, Belgium. The cab and the planning desk, in one person.
I drive heavy trucks in Europe and I plan trucks from a logistics office. I know the questions a driver asks at the charger and the questions a planner asks before a truck leaves.
I represent Chinese electric-truck makers in Europe and I run three websites: the electric trucks and chargers of IAA 2026, what an electric truck really costs per country, and the megawatt charging hub with battery storage.
I offer this to the team that looks after the batteries delivered to the truck makers.
I plan
Routes, charging windows, payload and delivery slots at a logistics office. I see where an electric truck fits a plan and where it breaks one.
I represent
Chinese e-truck makers in Europe, with test rides and spec sheets of European and Chinese e-trucks and a cost calculator for 11 countries.
What the battery team needs from Europe
Operators do not buy kilowatt-hours. They buy a truck that fits the plan.
DHL signed with CATL in Hanover in September 2026, Maersk in Hong Kong in October 2025. The question now is what their European fleets really need from the battery.
Five things decide it: usable range in winter, a charging stop that fits the driver's legal break, payload left for the goods, the value of the truck after five years, and service within a day.
Only drivers and planners feel these every day. That is the feedback I bring to Ningde.
Source: DHL–CATL memorandum, Hanover, 14 Sep 2026 (CnEVPost, 18 Sep 2026); Maersk–CATL memorandum, Hong Kong, 9 Oct 2025 (Logistik Heute, 14 Oct 2025)
45min
Source: EU Regulation 561/2006, art. 7
38min
Source: electrive, 15 Oct 2026
What operators ask about a battery:
- Usable range in winter, not the brochure range
- A charging stop inside the driver's 45-minute break
- Payload: every tonne of battery is a tonne less goods
- The value of the truck and its battery after five years
- Service and parts within a day, across borders
- Battery data the planner can trust
Why a Belgian partner
Neutral ground between the truck makers and the operators, on Europe's busiest freight corridor.
Belgium is not the home of the German truck groups and not the home of the French one. A Belgian partner talks to all of them, and to the Chinese makers, without taking sides.
Next door, in the Netherlands, the first Europe-built SuperPanther (Windrose) runs for DHL Freight since September 2026: about 2,000 km a week, into Belgium too, on the densest charging network of Europe.
Belgium is home to one of the two biggest ports of Europe, next door to the other, on Europe's busiest freight corridor. What works here works in Europe.
2,000km
Source: electrive, 15 Oct 2026
209,513
Source: European Alternative Fuels Observatory, 3 Feb 2026
What I deliver
Field feedback, pilot routes, introductions and data. From Europe, in plain words.
One contact in Europe for the battery team: what the drivers and planners say, what it means for the battery, and who to call.
- Field feedback from drivers and planners, in writing
- Pilot routes on the freight corridor that links the two biggest ports of Europe, with real loads
- Introductions to operators and hauliers in Belgium and its neighbours
- Test-ride data and spec sheets of European and Chinese e-trucks, IAA 2026 included (eTrucksAndChargers.com)
- Cost per km in 11 countries and 13 toll zones (eTruckTCO.eu)
- The megawatt hub with battery storage (bess4mcs.com)
How I work:
- I report what I see: no truck maker pays me a salary
- Every number with its source, every claim marked as mine or someone else's
- Short written notes, in English and Chinese
Three live websites
- eTrucksAndChargers.com Every heavy electric truck and charger of IAA Transportation 2026, with the trucks we drove ourselves. 96 listings · 16 charging systemsLIVE
- eTruckTCO.eu What an electric truck really costs, per country: diesel, tolls, charging, plus a charge planner with temperature and load. 11 countries · 13 toll zonesLIVE
- bess4mcs.com Battery storage for megawatt truck charging: the hub plan, and what I ask the storage suppliers for. 3.75 MW per megawatt plugLIVE
After this meeting
Three steps from this page to a first report.
- 1You tell me the three questions about European operators that the team cannot answer from Ningde.
- 2Within a month I answer them in writing, with drivers, planners and operators in Belgium and the Netherlands.
- 3Then we agree a yearly scope: feedback, pilot routes, introductions.