Canada’s electric truck and bus builder, Lion Electric Co and body building specialist, Boivin Evolution have announced first sales of a jointly developed fully-electric waste collection vehicle to North American waste services operator, Waste Connections Inc.

The Voith Group has added to its electronic components’ portfolio with the acquisition of ELIN Motoren GmbH from former parent company, Trasys.

Hankook Tire Europe has extended its contract with Europe’s largest trailer builder, Schmitz Cargobull AG.

Global tyre producer, Hankook Tire, has developed a real-time facilities abnormality prediction system called Condition Monitoring System Plus for its tyre manufacturing plants around the globe.

The BPW Group has acquired an unspecified stake in UZE Mobility GmbH, a start-up focussed on creating a global ‘Big Data’ marketplace via data collection using artificial intelligence of primarily un-used mobility data from all types of vehicles and the market environment.

Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG have signed further agreements to accelerate and expand their previously announced global car and light commercial vehicle alliance, first announced almost a year ago in July 2019.

Thermo King Europe and BPW Group have announced a collaboration to develop a new economic and ecological refrigerated trailer solution using regenerated energy from the trailer axles while braking.

Daimler Truck AG through its subsidiary, Daimler Truck Fuel Cell GmbH & Co KG, says it is pushing hard towards series production of fuel cells.

Hankook Tire has announced it is partnering with Amazon Web Services, a division of Amazon Inc to incorporate more digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data within its operations.

Microvast GmbH - a subsidiary of fast charging traction battery producer, Microvast Inc - says it plans to build a battery and e-powertrain R&D/production plant in Ludwigsfelde for the EMEA market.

Specialty vehicle manufacturer, Spartan Motors Inc has concluded the sale of its Spartan Emergency Response business to commercial vehicle bodybuilder giant, REV Group Inc for USD55m.

Traton SE has offered to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock in Navistar International Corporation not already owned by Traton at a price of USD35 per share in cash; this represents a 45% premium over Navistar’s closing share price of USD24.11 on January 29, 2020 and a 19% premium over Navistar’s 90-day volume weighted average price of USD29.40.