{"id":325840,"date":"2025-06-23T15:37:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T15:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:37:56","slug":"the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe ramp-up is too slow\u201d \u2013 Interview with Lars Stenqvist on truck electrification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification.jpg\" alt=\"Logo\"><br \/>16,000 engineers, three billion euros in annual R&#038;D investment and 5,000 electric trucks delivered: the figures from the Volvo Group speak for themselves. And yet, the Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer\u2019s CTO is dissatisfied with the pace of transformation. We spoke with Lars Stenqvist on the sidelines of EVS38 in Gothenburg \u2013 and he had a pointed message for policymakers. His plea: \u201cDefine the targets \u2013 leave the solutions to us!\u201d <a href=https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2025\/06\/23\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification\/ target='_blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2025\/06\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification.jpg&#8221; alt=&#8221;Logo&#8221;&gt;16,000 engineers, three billion euros in annual R&amp;D investment and 5,000 electric trucks delivered: the figures from the Volvo Group speak for themselves. And yet, the Swedish commercial vehicle manufacturer\u2019s CTO is dissatisfied with the pace of transformation. We spoke with Lars Stenqvist on the sidelines of EVS38 in Gothenburg&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/the-ramp-up-is-too-slow-interview-with-lars-stenqvist-on-truck-electrification\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":325841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}