Pod Point will offer Iveco eDaily customers discounted prices on AC charging equipment to both individual and fleet operators handling the installation, maintenance and servicing of its charging units.

At the past 2023 Commercial Vehicle Show in Birmingham, in April, Nikola/Iveco launched the pre-production Nikola Tre 4X2 battery-electric heavy-duty tractor unit.

The first product to come out the new production area is the e-Sys electric drive system for trailers.

Under the agreement, charging stations for Commercial Vehicles (CVs) will be placed every 120km along the main highways of European Union member state countries by 2028, whilst hydrogen refuelling stations will be installed at least every 200km by 2031.

ADL will supply National Express 170 double-deck BYD ADL Enviro400EV electric buses, to be delivered by the end of 2024.

The site’s expansion will involve converting existing warehouse space into production lines to assemble the body on the new Alexander Dennis Enviro400EV battery-electric chassis. From August 2023, the facility will focus on the production of the new Enviro400EV, following a successful pilot programme to build Enviro400FCEV hydrogen fuel cell buses in Larbert.

With over 100 staff, the plant has a production capacity of 1,000 vehicles per year, including hydrogen fuel cell and battery-electric buses, with alternative propulsion systems produced in Turin.

The letter expands on a pre-existing deal to sell MCV-bodied Volvo buses in the UK.

Watt's new partner, Etrux, is qualified in the construction of Luton bodies for cab-chassis platforms and in converting vans to applications such as utilities and temperature-controlled transportation.

The three million square metre plant is the company’s largest manufacturing site and employs just under 10,000 staff members manufacturing the Actros, Arocs, Atego, Econic, Unimog and Zetros models with a total capacity of 470 trucks per day.

The Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI), first launched in 2021, plans to put over a hundred electric trucks on the road and 35 chargers at two sites in order to trial them in real operations at scale. 

Teams at BAE and Eaton will combine their expertise in the development of an integrated electric vehicle system for the medium-duty truck market.