With a gross vehicle weight above 3.5 tonnes
Buses and coaches represented 12% of all HDV sales in Q1–Q2 of 2025. Of the 19,000 buses sold, 4,100 were zero-emission vehicles, accounting for 22% of total sales, up from the 3,000 sales, or a 16% share, in Q1–Q2 2024. Battery electric city buses reached a new high, accounting for 60% of all city bus registrations in Q2, while ZE sales of minibuses (buses with a weight between 3.5 t and 7.5 t) reached 13%. The corresponding share for interurban buses and coaches was significantly lower, at just 3%.
The sale of ZE interurban buses and coaches was almost exclusively from the sale of Iveco’s Crossway, an interurban bus, of which 190 were sold in Q1–Q2 of 2025. Sales of ZE coaches have been nascent in the European Union so far.
Shares of ZE buses and coaches rose sharply in Belgium, from 17% in Q1–Q2 2024 to 62% in Q1–Q2 2025, and in Sweden, from 3% to 50% over the same period. For city buses, only ZE sales were recorded in Q1–Q2 2025 in Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, and Romania, and the sales share was above 50% in Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.
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