China News Service, Jinan, September 10 (Chen Wanting) The reporter learned from the press conference of the Shandong Provincial People's Government Information Office on the 10th that the province's first batch of 88 high-power charging demonstration stations for electric heavy trucks had been completed by the end of August. From January to August this year, the province added a total of 13,600 electric heavy trucks, a year-on-year increase of 212%, and the penetration rate reached 33%. Among them, 3,245 new vehicles were added in August, with a single-month penetration rate of 57.3%. The large-scale application of electric heavy trucks has accelerated across the board.
It is reported that Shandong issued the "Implementation Plan for the Construction of High-Power Charging Demonstration Stations for Electric Heavy Trucks in Key Highway Transport Corridors in Shandong Province (2026-2027)" and "Several Measures to Support the Large-Scale Application of Electric Heavy Trucks" in April this year, and simultaneously formulated 27 policy implementation details to promote key work from multiple dimensions such as demonstration station construction, fiscal and financial support, energy replenishment service improvement, and power grid supporting guarantees.
"The first batch of 88 electric heavy truck high-power charging demonstration stations includes 10 to 20 demonstration stations in highway service areas and 68 demonstration stations on ordinary national and provincial highways." According to Gao Hongyan, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Transportation and first-level inspector, the high-speed road network demonstration stations have been fully implemented. , marking the official completion of the "circular corridor" for green energy replenishment of electric heavy trucks in the province, and the green freight energy replenishment system for high-speed trunk lines has officially entered a new stage of network operation; ordinary national and provincial highway demonstration stations have been rolled out across the entire area and implemented at points, and an electric heavy truck energy replenishment network throughout Shandong has been initially built. The construction of demonstration stations has also driven social capital investment to build more than 200 heavy-duty truck charging and swapping stations, initially forming an interactive pattern of "government guidance and market force".
In response to practical problems such as expensive car purchases and high operating costs, Xue Jun, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Finance, said that the province has implemented targeted policies around "reducing the burden of car purchases, making charging more convenient, and extending and strengthening the chain", raising approximately 3.2 billion yuan (RMB, the same below) through multiple channels, and implementing a "combination punch" of fiscal and financial coordination policies.
On the car purchase side, Shandong implements the national subsidy policy for the scrapping and renewal of old operating trucks, which provides a subsidy of up to 140,000 yuan per vehicle according to the type of scrapped vehicle, early scrapping time and type of newly purchased vehicle. At the same time, it implements vehicle purchase tax and vehicle and vessel tax exemptions, and superimposes policies such as loan interest discounts, guarantee fee subsidies, and insurance excess compensation compensation to effectively reduce the burden on operating entities.
In response to the issue of usage costs, Wang Lei, chief engineer of the Shandong Provincial Department of Transportation, said that the province adheres to problem-oriented and precise policy implementation, focusing on the entire chain from vehicle purchase, financial support, insurance guarantee, operation replenishment, etc., and strives to allow companies and drivers to settle their accounts, see benefits, and use them with confidence. He said that in terms of charging and replacement service fees, the service fee of highway charging stations is about 0.4 yuan/kWh after discount, a drop of 50%.
In terms of service facilitation, Liu Xuejun, deputy director of the Shandong Provincial Energy Bureau, introduced that the province has launched a unified mobile application "Qilu eCharge" App to create a dedicated service interface for heavy truck charging and replacement, making new energy heavy trucks "easy to charge and recharge." Electric heavy truck drivers can check nearby heavy truck charging stations, real-time status of charging piles, charging power, idle or fault conditions, current charging prices and station service quality through the App, and can jump to the navigation software with one click. So far, the Shandong provincial platform has been connected to 764 heavy truck charging stations and 11,600 charging terminals, covering 16 cities and 25 key transportation corridors.
Compared with conventional passenger car charging stations, heavy-duty truck charging stations have larger capacity, urgent installation requirements, and new locations, which place higher requirements on power grid security. Yue Baoqiang, deputy chief engineer of State Grid Shandong Electric Power Company, said that since construction started at the beginning of this year, the company has built a total of 255 kilometers of 10-kilovolt lines and added a power supply capacity of 820,000 kVA. Through the "project leader + special class" coordination mechanism and green channel, the construction period of the supporting power grid for the heavy truck demonstration station was shortened by 30% compared with conventional power grid projects, and 47 key civil issues were solved.
Talking about the next step of planning, Gao Hongyan said that Shandong will launch the second batch of electric heavy truck charging demonstration station site selection and layout, continue to optimize fiscal and financial support policies, deeply explore port short-distance barges, mining transportation, bulk logistics, urban waste and other scenarios, and actively expand the application of trunk logistics; at the same time, it will guide the participation of social financial capital, improve the intelligent service guarantee system, assist the green and low-carbon transformation of road freight, and serve the construction of green, low-carbon and high-quality development pioneer areas.
