The Tesla Semi Has a Rival - And It's Already on the Road!
Everything Electric Podcast
The Fully Charged Show
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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From a small startup to a global, Tesla Semi rivalling contender in just four years, Windrose already has trucks on the road across five continents. We discuss their bold central driving position, innovative "glocal" manufacturing strategy, and why Wen Han believes AI is the electric truck's secret weapon.
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| 0:45.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of the Everything Electric podcast where today we have a really special guest for you. |
| 0:50.5 | But before we get to that, if you could do us the honour of liking and subscribing, we so appreciate it. |
| 0:56.0 | It really does help us out and ensure us that we can come to wonderful places like Antwerp where we're recording today. But today I'm catching up with the CEO of Windrose Technology, Wenhan. |
| 1:01.0 | Now Windrose Technology is a relative latecomer to the world of electric vehicles, but it seems to me that that timing is totally strategic. |
| 1:08.0 | Windrose technology are developing electric HGVs, and unlike some of their |
| 1:12.9 | predecessors or some of those early arrivals, Nicola, Volta trucks, that were forced to develop |
| 1:18.0 | components themselves and completely vertically integrate, Windrose have been able to wait for |
| 1:23.4 | that electric vehicle supply chain to mature and and as such, rapidly accelerate their delivery |
| 1:28.8 | of their electric HGV. Today, they have a stunning truck that boasts a 670-kilometer range, |
| 1:35.8 | an unusual central driving position, pretty good aerodynamics, and they have a very interesting |
| 1:42.2 | approach to manufacturing and scaling. So we are going to get into all of that, but first, a very interesting approach to manufacturing and scaling. |
| 1:44.6 | So we are going to get into all of that, but first, a very quick advert break. |
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