Electric truck market data
Zero-emission truck and bus sales in 2025 by country and segment: China's 457,000 units, Europe, the United States and the share electric trucks have reached in each.
Zero-emission truck and bus sales by country, 2025
Medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (over 3.5 tonnes): battery-electric and fuel-cell trucks and buses.
| Market | Units sold | Zero-emission share |
|---|---|---|
| China | 457,300 | 25% of medium and heavy vehicles |
| United States | 25,427 | 3.1% |
| European Union | 23,700+ | 4.5% of trucks over 3.5 t |
| Rest of the 34 countries tracked | about 14,000 | led by India, mostly buses |
| Total | about 520,000 | up 86% on 2024 |
China accounted for 88% of the world's zero-emission truck and bus sales. Outside China, the United States made up about 40% of sales, almost all of them medium-duty delivery trucks; in India and Brazil, buses were more than half of the zero-emission market and battery-electric trucks remain rare.
China by segment, 2025
| Segment | Zero-emission units | Zero-emission share |
|---|---|---|
| Heavy trucks (all types) | about 232,000 | 28% |
| – Tractor-trailers | 38.3% | |
| – Dump trucks | 41.3% | |
| – Utility vehicles | 11.8% | |
| Medium trucks | about 172,000 | 22% |
| Buses and coaches | about 50,500 | 28% |
The segments with the most predictable duty cycles went electric first. Tractor-trailers on port, steel-mill and short-haul routes and dump trucks serving construction sites lead; straight trucks, at just over 7%, trail. Heavy trucks and tractor-trailers made up 51% of China's zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty market in 2025, up from 35% the year before.
China's new-energy heavy trucks month by month
New-energy heavy-truck registrations, including plug-in and range-extended hybrids, and their share of all heavy trucks.
| Month | Registrations | Share |
|---|---|---|
| March 2025 | 15,000 | 21% |
| June 2025 | 18,000 | 26% |
| July 2025 | 16,700 | 26% |
| October 2025 | 20,100 | 29% |
| November 2025 | 28,000 | 36% |
| December 2025 | 45,300 | 54% |
| Full year 2025 | 231,100 | 29% |
The full-year share doubled from 14% in 2024 to 29% in 2025, while the overall heavy-truck market grew by 21%. December's 54% was lifted by buyers bringing purchases forward before subsidy and tax changes in 2026, but the share had already passed 30% in the autumn.
Diesel, gas and electric
Diesel's share of China's heavy-truck sales fell from 57% in 2024 to 46% in 2025 (about 374,000 trucks). Natural gas took 25% (about 199,000), and battery-electric trucks 28% (about 225,000), making electric the second most popular powertrain after diesel. In medium trucks, diesel still held 71%, with battery-electric at 22%.
Battery swapping
Sales of swap-capable vehicles reached about 68,300 in 2025, up about 131% on 2024, and swap-capable trucks have held around 30% of China's electric heavy-truck market since 2023. Fleets can buy the truck without a battery and lease the battery from a third party, which lowers the purchase price. See battery swapping for electric trucks.
Sources
- ICCT, Zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle market in China: a 2025 update (June 2026)
- electrive, ICCT report: China pulls ahead in battery-electric truck and bus sales (20 August 2026)
- electrive, Year-end surge: electric trucks outsell diesel for the first time in China (23 January 2026), citing CV World