{"id":346633,"date":"2026-02-19T11:05:05","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-smmt-reports-electric-bus-surge-as-truck-market-contracts\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:53:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:53:48","slug":"uk-smmt-reports-electric-bus-surge-as-truck-market-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-smmt-reports-electric-bus-surge-as-truck-market-contracts\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: SMMT reports electric bus surge as truck market contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2026\/02\/uk-buses-trucks-sales-2026-wrightbus-volvo-fh-aero-background.jpg\" \/>Light and shade in the UK\u2019s 2025 commercial vehicle balance: the HGV market contracted amid economic headwinds, but electric truck registrations more than doubled from a low base. By contrast, buses \u2013 and electric buses in particular \u2013 recorded strong growth, with more than one in four new buses being zero-emission. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2026\/02\/19\/uk-smmt-reports-electric-bus-surge-as-truck-market-contracts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>src=&#8221;https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/media\/2023\/09\/Electrive-Product-Logo.svg&#8221; alt=&#8221;electrive.com&#8221;&gt;Light and shade in the UK\u2019s 2025 commercial vehicle balance: the HGV market contracted amid economic headwinds, but electric truck registrations more than doubled from a low base. By contrast, buses \u2013 and electric buses in particular \u2013 recorded strong growth, with more than one in four new buses being&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/uk-smmt-reports-electric-bus-surge-as-truck-market-contracts\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346633"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346846,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346633\/revisions\/346846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}