DAF Trucks Brazil Ltda estimates its sales by the end of the year will be almost double those registered in 2018, with more than 4,500 units registered.

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.

Scania do Brasil Ltda has announced it is to invest a further BRA1.4bn (USD350m) in upgrading its plant in São Bernardo do Campo over the next three years from 2021 to 2024.

Divemotor, the dealer representative of Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles (trucks and bus chassis) in Peru presented new truck models for the truck Peruvian market last month; no fewer than seven models ranging from 6 tons gvw to 23 tons gvw are to be introduced during the coming months.

Samauto is planning to produce some 10,000 buses in 2019, which would be more than double the 4,000 units built in 2018, suggested Serkan Öztürk, export specialist for Samauto at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty, held at the end of June.

Daimler Trucks of Stuttgart has formed a new division called the Autonomous Technology Group as a global organization for automated driving.

At the end of May, JAC Motors Brasília SIA, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian company, SHC Group of Brasil, announced the launch of an electric light-duty truck in Brazil.

CKD assembler of JAC-branded cars, Allur Group announced at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty that it was now assembling buses at its headquarters in Kostanay.

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%.

Alternative energy technologies, UQM Technologies Inc, has announced the company’s management has been informed by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States there is currently no reason why the proposed acquisition of the company by Danfoss Power Solutions Company, should not proceed.

BorgWarner Inc and battery storage specialist, Romeo Power Technology, have formed a joint venture to produce automotive batteries for light and high-performance electric vehicles.