Volkswagen AG and Northvolt AB have created a 50/50 joint venture to build a factory for lithium-ion battery production.

Daimler Buses has celebrated the 25th anniversary of producing its Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coach, which also saw the handover of the 30,000th vehicle produced and delivered to Polish operator, RAF TRANS.

This month sees a new low floor electric bus chassis go on display at Busworld Europe in Brussels.

DHL International (UK) Ltd, a logistics and supply chain specialist and part of the DHL Group, has marked a new strategic partnership with Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland Ltd, by taking delivery of the first 200 of 700 new Volvo vehicles, including 550 identical FH 6x2 tractor units.

On show at the low carbon vehicle event held by Cenex at the Millbrook Research & Testing Ground in Millbrook last month, was a fully electric low entry Agrale chassis with Toda bus body.

Haldex AB has finished the joint development of the ModulT disc brake with Daimler AG of Stuttgart and is now starting serial production of the brake disc for the Mercedes-Benz Unimog.

Plus.ai, a provider of self-driving truck technology located in California's Silicon Valley, has received a ‘451 Firestarter’ Award from technology research and advisory firm 451 Research (now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence).

e-troFit GmbH is to present its electrification solution for diesel buses at the Busworld Europe.

Allison Transmission Holdings Inc has acquired the assets and certain liabilities of two companies, Walker Die Casting Inc, and C&R Tool and Engineering.

Firestone Industrial Products Company, LLC, has announced significant investment to expand the company’s operations in Central Europe.

ZF Friedrichshafen AG plans to present the next generation of its automatic powershift transmission for buses at Busworld this month.

Truck body and trailer builder, Empresas Randon SA reported strong results for the first half of 2019.