SCALAR, the name of ZF's AI-powered digital fleet management platform, was announced at the Bharat Mobility Expo 2025 in New Delhi.

The round was led by America venture capital firm, Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF) of Sacramento, California, with participation from Blume Ventures of Mumbai, India and British International Investment Plc of London, UK (BII).

The company has launched two new services designed for the evaluation, verification, and benchmarking of AI-powered systems.

Sonatus is a designer of vehicle data management applications for passenger cars and commercial vehicles.

Justifying the choice, Workhorse said that Siemens’ software meant it could eliminate the “costly” multi-computer-aided-design environment it relied on before.

The American tech company says that its AI models have been trained on a large-scale dataset comprising more than 38 billion minutes of video footage.

As part of its ‘Blue Service Contract’, offered to North American customers, Volvo NA is now using an adaptive maintenance system which dynamically changes service intervals based on the performance and application of the truck.

The company said the project aims to not only automate the ordering processes but also monitor shipments and estimate, in real time, the arrival of components at assembly plants across Japan.

Manufacturers have always cared about what the customer thinks about their products. In the commercial vehicle industry, this is often expressed in terms of economics. Perhaps it needs an industry outsider to make the question of customer satisfaction about empathy instead of, or in addition to, materialism. Recently, I spoke with somebody who is prepared to bring feelings into a conversation that normally deals with facts only – Ali Javidan, the founder and CEO of Range Energy, a startup firm based in Mountain View in California’s Silicon Valley.

Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence used to create entirely new solutions within a specific field.

Seeing Machines’ technology, which tracks the driver’s face and behaviour to identify and react to distraction or drowsiness, was tested and certified successfully for use in buses produced by Wrightbus.

Optibus and Stoneridge’s software offerings will be made available by Volvo Bus to pilot customers in selected markets this year.