Tokyo-based Toyota Motor Corporation, worldwide partner of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, is to support the Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, by developing a special new product, the APM, a battery electric mobility vehicle designed expressly for use at the Games.

Electric bus builder, Ebusco is to supply 60 Ebusco 2.2 12m vehicles to bus operator, Qbuzz for operation in Groningen and Drenthe by the end of 2019.

The Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant is preparing to enter a new market segment with its launch of the MZKT-730240 terminal tractor truck.

Allison Transmission Inc has celebrated assembly of its 250,000th fully automatic transmission at its factory at Szentgotthárd.

Akia Avesto Automotive Industry LLC announced at Busworld Central Asia that in June this year it had inaugurated a bus factory in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Teojama Comercial S.A., the main distributor of the Hino truck and bus brand in Ecuador, has delivered a new bus fleet of 53 Hino AK 8JRSA buses to Ecuadorian public transport cooperatives, Tomebamba and Turismo Baños, in the city of Cuenca.

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.

Scania do Brasil Ltda has sold 300 New Generation model trucks to G10, a buying and operational consortium of transport operators, which is based in Maringá.

The Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications has confirmed an order for 183 BYD pure electric buses for operation in the capital of Santiago.

BMB Mode Center Ltda, the vehicle modification specialist for Volkswagen Trucks and Buses, has just completed 18 years of operations, manufacturing some 135,000 custom-built bodies in that timeframe.

Astana Motors in March this year it had begun to assemble Chinese buses from Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co Ltd, according to Adilbek Gayev, the head of distribution for commercial vehicles at Astana at Busworld Central Asia in June. 

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.