Two Dutch bus builders, Ebusco Holding N.V., based in Deurne, and VDL Bus & Coach B.V., headquartered in Valkenswaard, have been awarded the Red Dot Award for their 3.0 and Citea models. VDL has previously won the award for its Citea bus in 2017.

Heliox B.V., based in Best, Netherlands, has installed charging infrastructure in a total of 100 cities worldwide. The 100th city, Seattle, is one of Heliox’s larger projects. Other significant charging installations include Amsterdam, Glasgow, and Hamburg.

Macon, Georgia-based school bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corp has received the largest order of electric school buses in its history from Modesto City Schools in California. The order covers 30 units, enough to convert nearly half of the school district’s fleet to zero emission vehicles. Deliveries of the vehicles are scheduled for Q4 2022.

The Czech manufacturing plant of Turin, Italy-based Iveco Bus, located in Vysoké Mýto, has produced its 150,000th bus. Located around 150km east of Prague, the plant has been producing vehicles since 1895, previously for historical Czech companies Sodomka and Karosa.

Caio reached the milestone of 600 units produced of the new generation of Apache Vip city buses, which started production in the second half of 2021 and is one of the brand's best sellers.

Mercedez-Benz do Brasil celebrated the silver anniversary (25 years) of its Sprinter light-duty vehicle range in Brazil with the launch of the new Sprinter Street models, which are fitted with new PROCONVE L7-compliant engines.

Motiv Power Systems has announced that its sixth-generation electric truck exceeded 150 miles on a single charge using two Aries LFP battery packs supplied by Our Next Energy during a field test.

Ohio-based Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC has announced that it reached several significant sustainability milestones throughout 2021. The firm diverted 99.9% of its waste from landfill, reduced its energy consumption by more than 16 million kWh, and installed a 1.17MW solar array at its plant in Huntingdon, Indiana.

Daimler Truck AG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, has announced the delivery of its very first series production eActros to operator DB Schenker. The eActros 300, produced at the Daimler plant in Wörth am Rhein, will be used for heavy-duty distribution.

The lighting and harness manufacturer will consolidate its existing operations into a single 200,000 sq ft facility, following fifty years in the business.

100 commercial vehicle service facilities are now certified by ZF, which plans to add a further 150 new locations in the coming year.

Yutong produced 42,065 buses and sold 41,828, a solid performance bucking the general trend of contraction in the bus market both in China and abroad.