New EU electrically-chargeable bus registrations surged by 37.6% with 8.633 vehicles, increasing the segment’s market share from 22.1% to 26.4%. Overall EU’s commercial vehicle market delivered a mixed performance in the first three quarters of 2026, against a backdrop of rising energy prices. Electrically-chargeable vehicles continued to gain market share, although uptake remains below the required pace but the bus market performed strongly, posting solid growth, as ACEA European vehicle manufacturers' trade association ACEA reports in a market update.
New EU bus registrations, including gas and biodiesel vehicles, increased by 15.2% year-to-date to 32,695 units. Italy recorded the strongest growth among the largest markets (+34.4%) and is now the EU’s largest bus market, followed by France (+10.5%) and Germany (+10.1%). Spain also posted an increase (+1.3%). At the same time, Poland saw a remarkable 68.6% surge in registrations, making it the EU’s fifth-largest bus market. EU diesel bus registrations also increased by 5%, holding still a 58.4% market share. In addition, hybrid-electric bus registrations grew by 24% to 2,264 units, accounting now for 6.9% of the market. In the EU plus EFTA (Iceland, Norway en Switzerland) and the United Kingdom a total of 40,435
buses were registered in the first 9 months of which 11,428 buses are electrically charged. The EU van market remained flat, with 1,073,427 vehicles registered. Diesel remained the preferred choice for new van buyers in the EU, with its market share falling from 81.7% in the nine months of 2025 to 78.1%. Electrically-chargeable vans grew by 38.2%, capturing 14.1% market share, an increase from 10.2% in Q1-Q3 2025. Hybrid van registrations recorded strong growth (+35.6%), although they accounted for only 3.4% of the EU market. New EU truck registrations increased by 7.5%, amounting to 245,079 units of which 12,873 electric - +49.8%, 5.3% market share - and 93 hybrid. (Photo: Sean Murtaugh)