The all-new Vehicle Tech Lab can house complete trucks, bus and coach chassis and components.

Westport has committed to investing up to USD10m a year over the next decade to support the construction and development of the new site, which it will undertake together with the local authority.

The vehicle was produced as part of the existing SuperTruck program co-funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and industry, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in road transportation.

The direct current fast charging system which Mahle has installed provides up to 350 kW of power in under five minutes but can potentially lead to overheating in the battery and even in the vehicle cab.

Marcopolo remains a traditional bus and coach body builder - this is the first time it has developed its own chassis and bus body together.

JCB has stated that retrofitting the hydrogen engine - which is made for construction and agricultural machinery - into the Mercedes truck took just a few days.

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.