The range of electric heavy-duty vehicles is expanding, and orders are beginning to follow suit. At the Movin’On Summit 2026, Jean-Yves Kerbrat, Managing Director of MAN Truck & Bus France, offered a useful indication of this trend. According to him, electric vehicles accounted for 10% of heavy-duty vehicle orders in France during the summer preceding the Summit.

Manufacturers have invested in bringing these vehicles to market. For transport operators, deploying them at scale now also depends on the ability to recharge them along their routes. Jean-Yves Kerbrat highlights the need for more extensive charging infrastructure and energy available at a competitive price.

He is calling on the European Union to maintain its decarbonisation ambition and take charging constraints across the continent into account. For fleet operators, the availability of charging points must keep pace with the expanding range of electric trucks so that more journeys can be electrified.