Electric bus market Europe 2022, all the figures. Guess the leaders!
Iveco Bus and VDL grow, Solaris lags behind after two years at the helm of the electric bus market (but had a successful year in terms of fuel cell bus registration, covering alone more than half of the market, whose total volume has been however reduced from 158 in 2021 to 99 last year).
Electric bus market 2022 grew 26% in 2022
The electric bus market in Europe has been growing 26 per cent last year, up to 4,152 units registered (it was 3,282 in 2021, with a growth of 48% on 2020).
Data, as usual, come from Chatrou CME Solutions consulting. 30% of the European city bus market is now zero emission-powered, a share already clear in 2022 Q1-Q2 analysis. Figures concern EU27+UK+ICE+NO+CH.
Alternative drive buses make up 62 per cent of EU city bus market
With an eye at the volumes of every alternative drive technology, in 2022 2.018 hybrid buses, 3.274 CNG buses and 99 hydrogen buses have been registered, in addition to the already-mentioned 4.152 battery-electric buses (trolleybuses excluded). Total? 9.543 alternative drive buses.
It means that 62.5% of city buses registered in Europe is now powered through alternative fuels. Their share is growing from 59% in 2021, but total volume is decreasing, mainly due to a lower volume of hybrid bus registrations (-38.5%). The city bus market has been dramatically decreasing last year (-14%).
Electric bus market Europe 2022: surprising Karsan and Golden Dragon!
It is worth mentioning the leap ahead done by Karsan, that in one year has gone from 36 to 135 e-bus registrations: + 275. Good performance also for the Chinese group Golden Dragon, up to 133 registrations.
Irizar, Bluebus and Ebusco, on the other hand, had more shadows than lights in 2022. The Spanish manufacturer has decreased 45% (but it 2021 they had a boom of registrations…). Ebusco is down 40%. 90 units were scheduled for delivery in 2022 in Berlin, but the handover was delayed due to supply chain constraints (first units landed a few days ago).
