With 2,567 battery-electric buses registered in the first half of 2023, the European e-bus market saw growth of 45%. Over a third of the city bus market (37.5%), on an European level, is covered by zero-emission buses (battery-electric and fuel cell buses).
The focus is on the fuel cell bus market.
Volumes of fuel cell buses look promising. 96 units of fuel cell buses were registered in the first half of the year vs 52 units during the last year (the growth is 84%). CaetanoBus ranked first with 28 units, followed closely by Van Hool with 26. The latter is still leading the market in the period 2012 – June 2023 with 132 registrations. Germany is now the country with the highest number of fuel cell buses in operation (without considering those registered before 2012): 167 vehicles.
Source: sustainable-bus.com.