Two bodies - a caged dropside van and a refrigerated box van - are targeted at commercial and vocational applications.

Once it is outfitted with equipment, the factory will employ more than 160 people, who will be engaged in producing an internal combustion engine platform for new vehicles sold under Traton’s brands.

Borgwarner names senior executives, Brady Ericson and Chris Gropp to lead new entity.

Special drive modes, including off-road, manual, paver, split-shaft and rocking modes, and multiple PTO options have all been designed with rugged vocational applications in mind.

The mixed vehicle order consists of new electric and diesel trucks from UK commercial vehicle retailer, the Asset Alliance Group, with deliveries to begin in late 2023.

The company announced an emissions testing milestone for its Vehicle Group's cylinder deactivation (CDA) and late intake valve closing (LIVC) technologies. Both are proven to systematically reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), and both are designed for diesel-engine-powered commercial vehicles to achieve compliance with new EU Euro VII emissions legislation.

The order comprises a mixture of medium- to high-end models from the ‘C13 PRO’ or ‘ZK6138H’ range of 12.5-metre coaches.

The Partner Super truck is powered by the Ashok Leyland ZD30 BS VI diesel engine offering an output power of 104 kW (140 hp) @ 2750 rev/min and maximum torque of 360 Nm @ 1350-2750 rev/min. It is matched with a manual Ashok Leyland 6-speed overdrive gearbox.

The Volvo subsidiary celebrated the production of its 10,000th MD series truck, a range which Mack Trucks began making in September 2020.

GM said the majority of the funding (USD 854 million) will go into their Michigan, New York and Ohio plants in order to boost the production of their sixth-generation small-block V-8 engines along with the related block, crank and head machining.  

Deliveries of the buses - a mixture of diesel and CNG vehicles worth nearly EUR34.2m altogether - are slated to begin in the second half of this year and will run into the first half of 2024. 

Already producing heavy and medium duty trucks, XCMG is now offering product for the large light-duty sector.