{"id":42945,"date":"2025-11-20T16:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=42945"},"modified":"2025-11-20T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T21:01:06","slug":"chinas-diesel-trucks-are-shifting-to-electric-that-could-change-global-lng-and-diesel-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=42945","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/eb8a565\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5760+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fec%2F77%2Fc10955a6f7c158bef63b5302a9fc%2Fef8e73d4824e44ad91954e01a3907409\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"191\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world\u2019s largest vehicle market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/china-truck-lng-ev-diesel-transport-70f3d612de4b45b6f954a7f557f7f741\">China&#8217;s diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in the same period in 2024, according to Commercial Vehicle World, a Beijing-based trucking data provider. The British research firm BMI forecasts electric trucks will reach nearly 46% of new sales this year and 60% next year.<br>&#8230;<br>Diesel consumption in China, the second-largest consumer of the fuel after the U.S., fell to 3.9 million barrels per day in June 2024, down 11% year-on-year and the largest drop since mid-2021, partly reflecting the shift to LNG and electric trucks,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=62824\" target=\"_blank\">according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[150,244,936],"class_list":["post-42945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-china","tag-ev","tag-trucking","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42947,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42945\/revisions\/42947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}