MAN Truck & Bus closed the first quarter of 2025 weaker than in the same period last year due to continued subdued customer demand.
At 20,600 units, unit sales in the first quarter were 14% below previous year’s level, thanks to a fall in deliveries of deliveries of trucks and buses to the EU27+3 region. As a result, sales revenue of 3.1 billion euros were also 12% below previous year’s level. At 143 million euros, the adjusted operating result fell significantly below the previous year’s figure (down by –136 million euros), primarily due to lower unit sales and higher factor costs.
MAN CFO Inka Koljonen: “In the first quarter, we very clearly felt the effects of weak customer demand on our sales and earnings. In order to further improve our resilience, we must and will work even harder on optimizing our costs and cash generation. However, it is encouraging that demand has picked up again slightly. The positive trend in incoming orders is consolidating. It was 50% higher than in the same quarter of the previous year and is now for the first time at a level last seen at the end of 2022 or the beginning of 2023. We are cautiously optimistic that the slightly positive growth trend can be sustained over the course of the year. We are therefore also preparing to phase out short-time working at our German locations.”
178% more e-vehicles
MAN has sold 380 buses and trucks in the first three months which represents an increase of 178% compared to the first quarter of 2024, driven primarily by the continued strong demand for electric city buses. MAN also delivered a large part of the pre-series of the eTruck to its customers in the first quarter. The start of series production of the eTruck at the production site in Munich is planned for June. In order to meet the rapidly increasing demand for batteries, MAN also launched its own battery series production for eTrucks and eBuses in Nuremberg in April – in which a total of around 250 million euros will be invested.