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Chinese EV Trucks Will Build the Cities of the Future
Its construction industry may be struggling, but the nation’s heavy machinery giants are in global expansion mode.
Chinese EV trucks will build the cities of the future.
Photographer: Qilai Shen/BloombergIf you think the world is starting to get used to surging sales of Chinese-made electric cars, the next wave of exports is going to be bigger, and more powerful.
That’s because the construction machinery giants that grew fat off the country’s property bubble are looking for new markets to offset the downturn at home. Combined with looming electrification, the effects could be quite as dramatic as the other Made-in-China export booms which have so troubled trading partners.