Electric bus registrations up 50% in Europe as total market grows 8% (EU 3.6%) in first nine months of 2025

Between January and September 2025, ACEA reports that registrations of electric buses in the European Union reached 6,444 units, up 49 percent compared to the same period in 2024. When including the United Kingdom and EFTA countries, the figure rises to 9,346 units – a 52 percent increase year-on-year.

Electrically chargeable buses now represent 22 percent of all new registrations, according to ACEA’s latest data that embraces all buses over 3.5 ton. The organization’s definition ‘electrically chargeable buses’ includes both BEV and plug-in hybrid buses.

UK remains the largest e-bus market in Europe

The complete bus and coach market is growing 3.6% by the end of the third quarter of 2025, reaching a total of 28,417 units. Among major markets, growth was led by Poland (+16.9%) and Germany (+12.8%), whereas Italy (-16.9%), Spain (-11.3%), and France (-4.5%) continued to see declines, ACEA states.

The association notes that “Hybrid-electric bus registrations faced a double-digit decline of 32.7%, accounting for 6.3% of the market. Diesel bus registrations declined slightly by 0.1%, now holding a 64.2% market share, down from 66.6% in the same period last year”.

Growth patterns differ between countries but point in the same direction. Italy nearly doubled its electric bus registrations to 912 units, driven by regional and municipal tenders supported by Next Generation EU funding. Belgium recorded a 389 percent surge, while Sweden grew by 484 percent and Austria by 71 percent. Germany remained one of the largest markets with more than 1,000 units delivered, consolidating its leadership in the European Union… but not in Europe as a whole, as the UK gres +50% and achieved 2,117 e-buses delivered.