Ebusco NV - a Dutch pioneer in zero emission electric vehicle technology and smart mobility solutions - has announced it is launching a regional partnership with Australian Bus Corporation to deliver and maintain next generation electric buses into Australia and New Zealand.

Starting in the first quarter of 2021, CV braking control dynamics specialist, the Haldex Group becomes the lead supplier of EBS and air suspension systems to the Wielton Group, one of Europe’s largest trailer manufacturers.

Masats SA has been chosen as the door supplier by the e-mobility division of Alstom, for its all-electric all-wheel steer APTIS city bus.

Knorr-Bremse AG has announced a high double-digit million Euro disc-brake supply extension contract with Europe’s biggest semi- trailer builder, Schmitz Cargobull AG of Horstmar, Germany.

Battery-powered and fuel cell heavy-duty truck builder, Nikola Corporation, has announced plans to join together with a publicly-traded special purpose acquisition company, VectoIQ Acquisition Corporation, to create a company focused on the development of next generation smart transportation.

Production capacity of the R6 in-line six-cylinder engine range of JSC Kamaz at its headquarters and main manufacturing base in Naberezhnye is to be increased from 12,000 units annually to 30,000, the heavy truck builder has announced.

The MIRA Technology Park, one of Europe’s leading mobility R&D centres for automotive technologies, has announced it is partnering with Plug and Play, the US innovation platform for start-up technology companies to create the UK’s first Mobility Innovation Hub.

Jacobs Vehicle Systems has announced it is to extend the supply compression release engine brakes across the full range of Yuchai K Series heavy duty engines made by Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Co Ltd, one of China’s largest engine makers based in Yulin.

Heavy-duty truck builder, Scania AB, has chosen Webasto Group to be its charging partner across Europe, to provide charging stations when selling its new plug-in hybrid truck.

Schmitz Cargobull AG, via its UK-owned subsidiary Schmitz Cargobull (UK) Ltd, plans to extend assembly of its rigid truck bodies in the UK through its national Service Partner network.

The Optare Group Ltd last month announced the development and launch of the Metrodecker H2; a hydrogen bus fuel-cell bus built on the Optare Metrodecker EV double deck bus platform.

Following the revelation of the its Euro 6 compliant heavy truck, called F-Max, in April 2017, Ford Trucks of Kocaeli, Turkey, is moving forward with expanding its distribution base in Western Europe through the appointment of private and independently-owned distributors, which it hopes to complete by 2023.