Eleven Ministries Issue Plan: 40% NEV Heavy-Duty Truck Penetration, Over 1.6 Million Units by 2030

On June 12, eleven departments—including the Ministry of Transport, the National Development and Reform Commission, and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology—jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Large-Scale Application of New Energy Heavy-Duty Trucks." The plan sets clear targets: by 2030, new energy heavy-duty trucks will account for 40% of new sales, with a total fleet exceeding 1.6 million units—approximately 20% of all heavy-duty trucks nationwide. In key regions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei area and the Fen-Wei Plain, over 80% of short-haul, fixed-route freight transport operations will be electrified. The plan proposes integrating charging and refueling infrastructure for electric heavy-duty trucks into the national expressway network to establish 30,000 kilometers of zero-carbon highway freight corridors. These corridors will cover key sections along the “5 radial, 4 north-south, and 5 east-west” national expressway routes, including G1 (Beijing–Harbin), G2 (Beijing–Shanghai), G3 (Beijing–Taipei), G4 (Beijing–Hong Kong/Macau), G5 (Beijing–Kunming), G15 (Shenyang–Haikou), G25 (Changchun–Shenzhen), G45 (Daqing–Guangzhou), G65 (Baotou–Maoming), G20 (Qingdao–Yinchuan), G30 (Lianyungang–Khorgas), G42 (Shanghai–Chengdu), G60 (Shanghai–Kunming), and G80 (Guangzhou–Kunming). Simultaneously, the plan calls for upgrading transportation infrastructure and advancing digital and intelligent transformation, ensuring that charging/swapping stations, hydrogen refueling stations, and green fueling stations are planned, designed, and constructed in tandem with main infrastructure projects. Approximately 3,000 heavy-duty truck charging and battery-swapping stations will be supported under the plan, with guidance to strategically deploy hydrogen and green fueling stations in key application scenarios. Newly built or renovated expressway service areas must either install or reserve space for heavy-duty truck charging/swapping facilities. Existing service areas will be retrofitted promptly to increase the number of dedicated heavy-truck charging spaces and, where appropriate, install battery-swapping infrastructure. Battery-swap stations must include independent charging capabilities, and open-service-area facilities are encouraged to be shared with local road networks. Integrated “wind-solar-storage-charging-swapping” facilities will be promoted in a coordinated manner to optimize refueling costs. Leveraging the main framework of China’s National Integrated Multimodal Transport Network—the “6 axes, 7 corridors, and 8 channels”—refueling infrastructure will be scientifically deployed along heavily trafficked national expressways and ordinary national/provincial highways, as well as at critical nodes such as freight hubs, ports, mines, industrial zones, and logistics parks. The plan emphasizes connecting refueling facilities across city clusters—including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and the Chengdu-Chongqing region—to form integrated networks, while aligning these efforts with national spatial planning, comprehensive transport strategies, and energy/power grid development plans. The plan also mandates continued implementation of the program to scrap and replace aging commercial freight vehicles, prioritizing replacement with new energy heavy-duty trucks. Local governments are encouraged to use economic and technical measures to incentivize market participants to purchase and operate new energy heavy-duty trucks and to relax traffic restrictions accordingly. Support will be provided to heavy-duty truck manufacturers to increase supply of cost-effective, highly reliable models. Automakers are urged to collaborate with logistics and energy companies to pilot innovative application scenarios, thereby accelerating industry-wide adoption.