The plant of Freudenberg-NOK Components Brazil Ltda, a Freudenberg Group company, based in Diadema, São Paulo is to close.

Hino Motors Ltd in June announced it had entered the Mongolian market with the opening of an authorized sales and service centre in the country’s capital city of Ulan Bator.

Hyundai Motor Company announced last month it plans to develop 17 electric-driven commercial vehicles within the next five years in response to increasing global demand for environmentally friendly transportation solutions.

Since its introduction in 1969, the Scania V8 has developed a strong reputation for performance and reliability.

London-headquartered CNH Industrial N.V. is to enter into a strategic and exclusive Heavy-Duty Truck partnership with Nikola Corporation, to accelerate industry transformation towards emission neutrality of Class 8 / Heavy-Duty Trucks in North America and Europe through adoption of fuel-cell technology.

CNH Industrial NV announced a five-year 2020 – 2024 business plan called ‘Transform 2 Win’ at its Capital Markets Day event in New York in early September, presenting a detailed strategy to transform the company’s structure and performance to empower its five operating segments in achieving their full potential.

Belkommunmash, a producer of trams, trolleybuses and more recently low floor full electric buses, used the inaugural Busworld Central Asia exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan to display two scale-models of its electric buses.

Otokar attended Busworld Central Asia held in Almaty, Kazakhstan at the end of June to showcase its products in a country and region where it sees considerable potential for export growth.

Hakan Kefoğlu, export director for the bus and coach builder, Anadolu Isuzu speaking at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty last month said the company was actively looking to expand bus and coach sales in the region.

The opportunity for DAF Trucks Brazil Ltda to sell more trucks in Brazil has risen with the arrival in the country in June of Paccar Financial.

Marcopolo SA has taken a controlling shareholding in Metalsur Carrocerías S.R.L., a manufacturer of coach bodies, located in Santa Fe, Argentina by increasing its shareholding in Metalsur, from 25%, which it acquired in 2012 to 70%.

Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Co Ltd (a 50:50 joint venture between the Dongfeng Motor Group and Volvo Group) is to intensify sales and marketing activities of Dongfeng Trucks in Chile.