The 17Xe ePowertrain, which is being tested in an Electra truck, is the result of a collaborative effort between Meritor and Danfoss Editron.

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.

Located in the Railway Triangle Industrial Estate in Portsmouth, the new centre allows potential customers to try out depot charging options for electric trucks, vans and buses.

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).

There is a five-mile extension of the existing 14-mile autonomous bus trial (CAVForth) from Edinburgh Park station across the Forth Road Bridge in the UK in an attempt to gather more complex data, utilising an upgraded version of Fusion’s CAVStar autonomous driving software and ADL’s Enviro100EV electric bus.

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

Its sites in Michigan and Germany will now be able to accommodate original equipment manufacturers looking to test internal combustion engines running on hydrogen fuel.

ZF states that upgrading to 5G will ensure that demands for seamless connectivity and large data transfers between vehicles and other nodes in the network are met at its test track.

The two companies will build a joint research facility in Germany, and ZF will invest in a new semiconductor fab planned for the state of Saarland in southwestern Germany.

UK bus and coach operator, Stagecoach, tested the first autonomous bus (Alexander Dennis Enviro200AV) to carry passengers over the Forth Road Bridge, near Edinburgh, as part of the CAVForth project.

InoBat is positioning itself as a producer of customised battery cells for a variety of duty cycles in what is regarded as 'smaller' volume niche applications. The cells are produced to match a variety of specific duty cycles and applications, with plans to produce and supply those battery cells consistently to its clients into the future.

The Electra eCargo Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle (FCEV) travelled 208 miles (334 km) a day from the supermarket’s depot in Sherburn-on-Elmet to Newcastle and then back again.