China sold approximately 457,300 zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles in 2025. Heavy battery-electric truck sales alone reached nearly 240,000 and more than doubled in one year. Battery-electric models captured almost 30% of China’s heavy-truck market.
The market is beginning to deliver a different verdict. Global sales of zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles rose 86% in 2025, exceeding 520,000 units, according to new data from the International Council on Clean Transportation. China accounted for nearly 90% of sales, but the European market also accelerated: zero-emission trucks rose from roughly 2.5% to 4.5% of new sales, while the battery-electric share of buses increased from 18.5% to 24.8%.
The absolute numbers remain modest beside the global diesel fleet. The direction is not. Electric heavy transport has crossed from technical possibility into commercial scaling. The question is no longer whether batteries can move trucks and buses. It is whether infrastructure can keep pace with the vehicles customers are starting to buy.
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Global sales of zero-emission trucks and buses rose 86% in 2025 to more than 520,000 vehicles, with battery-electric models overwhelmingly dominating.
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