The new Eletra e-bus is a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and Caio.

This new division is the working combination of two formerly independent companies, V.S.E. Vehicle Systems Engineering B.V. (VSE) of Veenendaal, near Utrecht, Netherlands and Hemscheidt Fahrwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG of Haan, Germany.

The company launched two new models in its electric truck and van range. The first was a heavy-duty truck, the LM864H, a class 8 HFC 6×4 semi-tractor and the second was the Logistar 300 electric van (class 3). Both vehicles are scheduled to be available in Q3 2023.

First Hydrogen has revealed plans for its Generation II concept vehicle, designed with either fuel cell electric or battery electric drive trains.

CME’s figures indicate that after seven straight years of growth of city buses powered with alternative drivelines, deliveries in 2022 within the EU27+4 countries fell marginally in volume terms to 9,543 units, down from 9,813 in 2021.

The Volta Truck-as-a-Service Hubs in Duisburg, Germany and Madrid, Spain join two other hubs already opened in France and the UK.

The truck itself features a P 45 cab, three axles, and nine batteries providing 300 kWh of energy - fitted with a dump trailer with side tip and pulling a 4-axle dolly trailer with another tipper body.

The 300 electric buses and 500 CNG buses will be delivered in batches over the course of this year to the capital city of Tashkent.

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 7.2-tonne cab-chassis - fitted with a swap body built by Göbel - is a new weight configuration in Quantron’s ‘QLI BEV’ range of light-duty vehicles based on the Iveco Daily.

The American retrofit firm raised over USD20m in the first tranche of a funding round led by Texas-based Reynolds Capital, the investment arm of dealership software firm The Reynolds and Reynolds Company.

The 844,490-square-foot facility, which will be used to scale up production of a new electric refuse truck, expands on the existing production capacity of Oshkosh and its subsidiary, McNeilus, in the state.