The 95,000 square-foot electric propulsion engineering centre in Bangalore, India, is responsible for working on inverters, DC/DC converters, on-board chargers, integrated drive modules, battery management systems and propulsion controllers.

Volvo Trucks in Curitiba builds heavy and medium duty trucks, coach chassis, engines and gearboxes.

The companies will jointly build a 5GW catalyst-coated membranes (CCM) manufacturing facility in the USA in 2025.

The facility employs 150 staff and aims to produce up to 10,000 hydrogen Type 4 composite cylinders (per year) used by heavy-duty vehicles.

The centre is responsible for robotics, computer vision (machine vision), hybrid AI (combination of machine learning with conventional software programs) and automated data labelling (marking objects in images).

The joint venture (JV) outlines several key goals with the primary being the co-development of a 40 GWh capacity gigafactory in the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) region.

The factory, which will produce tapered roller bearings for commercial vehicle applications, will be located on a greenfield site in Monterrey, which is located near the border with the USA.

The USD16m will be spent on expanding and upgrading its manufacturing facilities located in Charlotte, Michigan to allow for the series production of Class 3-5 electric vehicles.

From May 2023, ContiTech will be divided into three regional business areas: Industrial Solutions Americas, Industrial Solutions APAC (Asia & Pacific) and Industrial Solutions EMEA (Europe & Middle East).

The production facility will be built by Hygen Energy, an Oxford-based firm led by Wrightbus owner and Chairman Jo Bamford.

The project brings together a consortium led by HVS and includes Fusion Processing and Asda.

To meet growing demand, BMZ has expanded its battery production capacity in Karlstein am Main, Germany, through a Euro 11 million deal with Amada Weld Tech for the acquisition of welding systems, a key component in the battery manufacturing process.