Battery Swap and Smart Fleets: The Birth of the Electric Corridor for Trucks Between Africa and Europe

Gotion, Green Power Morocco, and Chery Heavy Trucks have signed an agreement to open an electric logistics corridor between Morocco and France dedicated to heavy transport. The project covers approximately 2,000 kilometers between Agadir, the port of Tangier, and Perpignan, a route that currently accommodates about 2,000 trucks each day.

First Phase and Infrastructure

The roadmap includes an initial batch of 100 heavy electric trucks with Gotion batteries, followed by an expansion based on operational results and infrastructure availability. Gotion and Green Power Morocco will form a joint venture that will manage electric fleets, battery swap stations, intelligent dispatching, and energy storage systems. Therefore, this is not merely a logistical joint venture, but one that oversees the entire ecosystem that makes long-distance electric transport possible: vehicles, physical infrastructure, software, and energy.

Chery Heavy Trucks brings engineering and production expertise for commercial vehicles to the project, while the rapid battery swap solution aims to reduce downtime for long-range transport.

The term "electric corridor" in this context does not mean that the road is physically electrified, but that the entire logistics chain along that route is designed to operate with electric-powered trucks, with dedicated supporting infrastructure along the way. This is the same approach used by Renault Trucks on the Blainville-Lyon route in France, where 22 electric trucks operate on closed loops with synchronized tractor swaps and recharges during mandatory driver breaks.