Daimler Trucks has regained its position as the truck leader in Europe
- Inovev estimated the production volume of heavy utility vehicles over 3.5 tonnes in Europe (excluding off-road vehicles and buses/coaches) to 472,606 units in 2022, compared to 447,853 in 2021 and 359,827 in 2020, a year marked by the Covid-19 crisis.
- The 2022 volume is still far from the figures reached in 2017, 2018, 2019 where the production volume was slightly higher than 500,000 units per year, but the trend for 2023 means that we will gradually approach these record volumes. The transport of goods remains very dynamic today in Europe and the new pollution standards do not augur a future collapse in production. It should be noted that exports of heavy utility vehicles outside Europe remain low, because each major market is supplied mainly by local production.
- Heavy utility vehicle production in Europe (including the United Kingdom but excluding Turkey) is very concentrated since it is represented by only eight brands (including a very marginal brand: Tatra) compared to 13 brands in the United States.
- By brand, Mercedes UV (belonging to the Daimler Trucks group) regained its leading position in Europe in 2022, ahead of Iveco, Scania, DAF, MAN, Volvo and Renault Trucks.
- These eight brands are integrated into six groups, the largest of which being the Volkswagen group (through the Traton company), owner of Scania and MAN (142,072 vehicles produced in 2022) followed by Volvo Trucks, owner of Volvo and Renault Trucks (94,581 vehicles produced in 2022). Daimler Trucks is only in third position (83,234 vehicles produced in 2022) ahead of DAF (68,761 vehicles).