In July 2001, Mercedes-Benz do Brasil Ltda registered its first sale of the O 500 bus chassis; model O 500 U 1725/59, which was then seen to set new standards for quality, technology, comfort, and safety of buses and coaches in Brazil.

Phillips Poland is making substantial investments in its European production facility in response to rapid growth in demand for its products in Europe. These investments are also to align its capabilities more closely with European and world wide markets.

Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, USA and SK Innovation Inc, of Seoul, South Korea, part of SK Energy, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a joint venture company – to be called BlueOvalSK – to manufacture battery cells in the USA.

Irizar eMobility, the electric mobility division of the Irizar Group, has announced it is moving to series production of its electric truck model by building ten ie Trucks with refuse collection bodies for municipal waste management operator, FCC Medio Ambiente.

Bridgestone Americas is expanding its Williamsburg, Kentucky, air springs manufacturing plant. The USD51m investment in the Firestone Industrial Products' plant will help meet market demand in the automotive vehicle market with a focus on making products for electric vehicles.

Two years delayed, due to Covid 19, Dutch bus and coach builder, VDL, is planning to resume its plans to build a dedicated plant for electric bus production in Roeselare, Belgium with construction due to begin in the autumn of 2021.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc on June 8, 2021, through public offerings on the US Nasdaq Exchange and Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange of 20,930,000 shares at USD5.50 a share, generated USD115,115,000.00 in gross proceeds.

Andreas Tostmann CEO of MAN Truck & Bus officially opened the MAN eMobility Centre in Munich on June 9, 2021, for staff training in electric truck assembly and manufacture and for ‘eTruck’ manufacturing production and process development, with start of series production of electric trucks said to be sometime soon.

Europe’s largest semi-trailer builder, Schmitz Cargobull is in the process of establishing a new facility in Manchester, UK to build customised vehicles for UK and Irish operators.

Peterbilt Motors Company has delivered the first production Model 220EV to the Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services in Anchorage, Alaska.

GAZ has begun commercial production of the GAZelle NN, its latest generation of the GAZelle light truck range, with the NN being an abbreviation for Nizhny Novgorod, the city where the GAZ plant is located.

Thermo King has confirmed its trailer refrigeration unit manufacturing production line in Galway, Ireland, has been awarded the ISO 14064-1 (Carbon Neutrality) certification from the National Standards Authority of Ireland, the first in the country and one of the first in Europe.