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The electric truck race

More than one in four new heavy trucks sold in China last year was electric. In the US it was one in three hundred. Updated 13 September 2026.

Electric truck market share: China vs Europe vs US

Share of new heavy-duty trucks sold that are electric, latest published period per market. All three bars sit on the same 0–100% scale.

🇨🇳 China

New-energy heavy trucks · CV World via CnEVPost

28.9%

Full year 2025

🇪🇺 Europe (EU-27)

Zero-emission trucks over 12 t · ICCT

2.3%

Jan–Jun 2026

🇺🇸 United States

Zero-emission Class 7–8 trucks · ICCT

0.3%

Full year 2025

Sources: CV World/CnEVPost (China), ICCT Race to Zero (EU, US), IEA cross-check · Updated 13 Sep 2026

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OUR READ

China sold more electric heavy trucks in December 2025 alone than the EU has since 2020. Europe is still doubling roughly every two years, from 1.2% in 2024 to 2.3% in the first half of 2026, and Germany's toll exemption is doing a lot of the lifting. The US is the only one of the three going backwards, and the ICCT puts the slide on the standards and credits pulled in 2025 and 2026. We will keep these bars honest as each market reports, and we would like all three of them longer.

Electric truck market share by country, 2025

Zero-emission (battery-electric and fuel-cell) share of new heavy-duty truck sales, full year 2025, every country on one definition. Bars are drawn to a 30% scale. Norway and Switzerland are not in the source (see the notes below).

Market

Electric share of 2025 sales

Units

🇨🇳 China

28.0%

232,000

🇬🇷 Greece

12.8%

🇳🇱 Netherlands

9.3%

887

🇩🇰 Denmark

7.5%

275

🇸🇪 Sweden

7.3%

382

🇦🇹 Austria

4.5%

288

🇹🇭 Thailand

3.1%

220

🇩🇪 Germany

2.6%

1,637

🇫🇮 Finland

2.5%

🇧🇪 Belgium

2.4%

191

🇫🇷 France

2.1%

866

🇬🇧 United Kingdom

1.3%

464

🇭🇺 Hungary

0.6%

🇪🇸 Spain

0.5%

121

🇨🇿 Czechia

0.5%

🇵🇹 Portugal

0.4%

🇮🇪 Ireland

0.4%

🇺🇸 United States

0.3%

875

🇮🇳 India

0.3%

239

🇮🇹 Italy

0.3%

🇷🇴 Romania

0.3%

🇸🇰 Slovakia

0.3%

🇸🇮 Slovenia

0.3%

🇵🇱 Poland

0.1%

🇨🇦 Canada

0.1%

🇧🇷 Brazil

0.06%

🇨🇴 Colombia

0.04%

Source: ICCT Global EV Market Monitor 2025 (Aug 2026), Dataforce/Polk/Gasgoo registrations · heavy-duty is over 12 t in Europe, Class 7–8 in the US, over 15 t in China · Full year 2025

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How the electric share has moved, 2021–2026

Same measure as the bars above, period by period. Bold marks the figure used on the top chart.

🇨🇳 China

2024

13.6%

2025

28.9%

December 2025 alone

53.9%

Jan–May 2026, monthly range

23–33%

2030 target

40%

Heavy-truck sales went from roughly 82,000 in 2024 to 231,100 in 2025 (CV World, the ICCT counts 232,000). December's 53.9% was demand pulled forward ahead of subsidy changes, and 2026 has settled in the twenties and thirties. Eleven ministries set a 40% target for 2030 in June 2026.

🇪🇺 Europe (EU-27)

2024

1.2%

H1 2025

1.4%

2025

1.9%

Q4 2025 alone

2.7%

H1 2026

2.3%

About 90 zero-emission heavy trucks in 2020, roughly 5,000 in 2025, 3,366 in the first half of 2026. In that half Germany was at 4.1%, up from 1.8% a year earlier after the toll exemption, with the Netherlands at 9.5%, Denmark 8.8% and Austria 7.0%. The table above is full-year 2025, which is why its country figures sit a little lower.

🇺🇸 United States

2021

0.02%

2022

0.07%

2023

0.27%

2024

0.40%

2025

0.34%

Q1 2026

0.25%

The only major market going backwards. 1,103 zero-emission heavy trucks in 2024, 875 in 2025, 132 in the first quarter of 2026, down 60% year on year. The ICCT ties the slide to the EPA standards being rescinded, California's ACT waivers revoked and the 45W credit ended, all in 2025 and 2026.

Sources: CV World/CnEVPost (China), ICCT Race to Zero quarterlies (EU, US) · Updated 13 Sep 2026

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How to read these numbers

What counts as an electric heavy truck

Every figure on this page is the share of new heavy-duty truck registrations or sales that have no tailpipe: battery-electric plus fuel-cell. China's statistics count new-energy vehicles, which also include plug-in hybrids. In heavy trucks those are a rounding error, and the ICCT's battery-electric-only count lands at the same 28%. Weight classes differ at the margin (over 12 t for Europe in the ICCT's count, over 16 t in ACEA's, Class 7–8 above 26,000 lb in the US, over 15 t in the ICCT's China cut), and none of that moves a market between 30%, 2% and 0.3%.

The US number has an asterisk

Of the 875 zero-emission heavy trucks registered in the US in 2025, 287 were Orange EV yard tractors, which never leave the terminal. In the first quarter of 2026 they were 77 of 132. Strip them out and the on-road Class 7–8 share is closer to 0.2%. We print the ICCT's published 0.3% on the bar and leave the arithmetic here.

Why the periods differ

Markets publish on different clocks, so each bar shows its latest published figure and says which period that is. Rounded, the US figure is the same for 2025 and Q1 2026.

Norway and Switzerland

Both are ahead of the EU but sit outside the ICCT monitor. Norway's Enova reports 12.5% of new trucks over 12 t electric in 2026 (the release does not say which months, and we are chasing a dated figure). Switzerland's 942 electric heavy commercial vehicles in 2025 are 22.4% of a category that starts at 3.5 t, so they are not comparable to the table above.

Where this page goes next

A fleet order tracker and a megawatt-charging site tracker are in the works for the same section.