Trends & Policies

Electrically chargeable trucks with GVW over 3.5 tons grew by a robust 29.5%, securing almost 2% of the market share. As for vans, electrically chargeable vans experienced a more modest 4.2% growth, capturing a 5.8% market share, a slight decrease from 6.2% last year.

CO2 emissions from large trucks (including vocational vehicles, such as garbage trucks, tippers or concrete mixers) and buses will have to be reduced by 45% for the period 2030-2034, 65% for 2035-2039 and 90% as of 2040. Despite last-minute interventions, the role of e-fuels remains excluded from th...

The EU Parliament has agreed on new rules to accelerate the uptake of zero-emission trucks by granting trucks four extra tonnes to accommodate electric and hydrogen technology and one-tonne axle increase.However, the final word on the matter will be spoken by the new Parliament, following the electi...

It is not good news for truck and bus manufacturers, who relied on public fundings in order to boost e-vehicle sales in Germany. Indeed, the Government used to subsidize the purchase of heavy-duty vehicles with alternative drives so to cover about 80 percent of the price difference compared to a die...

MEPs propose to increase by 4-ton weight and accordingly length of zero-emission trucks to compensate for the space and weight needed to accommodate batteries or fuel cells, at the same time providing additional cargo capacity. The proposal, EU Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee, will be s...

In 2023, over 190 OEMs sold new energy trucks, with the top 10 OEMs accounting for 67% of total sales, up by 1 percentage point year-on-year. Geely led the market by a significant margin with sales surpassing 30,000 units.