The shift to electric trucks is accelerating faster than ever. This has been another record year for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicle deployment, with 2024 outpacing 2023 as the best year yet for EV adoption, according to a new Environmental Defense Fund analysis of Class 2b-8 fleet announcements.
EDF’s Electric Fleet Deployment & Commitment tracking tool is a public list of orders, deployments and commitments announced by fleets to deploy MHDEVs. Users can find granular information on specific announcements and gain insight into MHDEV deployments and commitments on a company-by-company basis.
2024 was another record year for electric truck deployments, proving that the shift to zero-emission is not slowing down Share on XIn 2023, U.S. companies and organizations rapidly expanded their MHDEV fleets. Over 10,000 electric trucks were deployed last year, part of a larger trend observed showing a sharp increase in electric vehicle adoption between 2020 and 2023. By the end of 2023, more than 12,894 electric trucks were on the road, making 2023 the best year on record for MHDEV deployments.
2024 shattered that record, and the latest data shows the momentum for electric truck adoption is building. This year saw over 15,316 new MHDEVs deployed from January to mid-November, an increase of nearly 44% from last year, establishing 2024 as the new record year for MHDEV deployments.
This increase continues a growing positive trend of electric truck deployments that has been observed since 2020. By the end of year there will be more than 29,000 electric trucks announced to be on the road, with the majority of deployments happening in the last two years. It has become easier than ever to purchase and deploy an electric vehicle thanks to increasing private industry MHDEV adoption and a recent influx of federal grant funding and tax incentives. This has led to more affordable, readily available trucks and technology and demonstrates overall industry growth, as seen in the continuing positive deployment trend.
This year also saw more fleets deploying MHDEVs for the first time, not just early adopters. Large companies like Amazon, who are actively ramping up deployments from their order of 100,000 Rivian trucks in 2019, and Walmart, who recently started deploying BrightDrop 400 electric vans, are still driving EV deployments as early adopters, but a range of new fleets and small fleets are also diving into the transition. This year, an additional 127 new fleets announced their first deployments, bringing the total number of fleets with MHDEV deployments to 331 nationally.
Medium- and heavy-duty electrification is more accessible now than ever. Earlier this year, EDF dove into this topic by interviewing small and mid-sized fleets that are tackling electrification. The stories of these fleets and insight captured can be explored using EDF’s new resource: The Case for Electric Fleets.
As more U.S. states adopt stringent medium- and heavy-duty fuel standards and private sector adoption continues to grow, it is a critical time for fleets to invest in electric vehicles and the supporting infrastructure as we work towards 100% zero-emission truck sales by 2035. This rapidly growing list of deployments shows that electric trucks are here to stay, and 2025 promises even more transformative changes in the transportation sector.