Analysis: Much work to do to reach zero-emission new truck sales by 2040 says specialist market analyst firm, Interact Analysis
By Jim Gibbins - 1st January 2021
UK - Following the announcement by ACEA-PIK on delivering fossil-free trucks by 2040, Alastair Hayfield, senior research director for commercial vehicles at market research firm, Interact Analysis of Irthlingborough, UK, made the following comments: “Currently, the medium- and heavy-duty battery electric truck market is very small: in Europe it amounted to 124 units in 2019 (44 medium-duty trucks and 80 heavy-duty trucks). Meanwhile, in 2019, the European market for hydrogen fuel cell medium- and heavy-duty trucks was negligible.”
“Of the named members of the alliance of truck manufacturers (Daimler, Scania, MAN, DAF, Volvo, Iveco, and Ford), three appear in the top six 2019 European suppliers of medium- and heavy-duty battery electric trucks and buses: Volvo at 16%, MAN at 10% and DAF at 9%. But in real terms this only actually amounted to 20, 12, and 11 units, respectively.
