2025 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Traton and its electric trucks
Amy Nordrum
created: Oct. 6, 2025, 10:45 a.m. | updated: Oct. 7, 2025, 12:20 p.m.
Today, Traton is a company in transition.
In the first half of 2025, Traton sold 1,250 electric models globally, which was twice as many as during the same period last year.
Traton is now ramping up production—MAN recently opened a new factory line that can assemble electric and diesel trucks interchangeably.
Electric trucks do have a climate impact from the mining and manufacturing processes required to build them.
Even so, battery-electric trucks operating in Europe today reduce emissions on average by 63% compared with diesel trucks, according to an analysis by the nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation.
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