The Higer Azure A12BR is already fully approved by SPTRANS, the transport authority in the city of São Paulo. Local production planned with start of production scheduled for 2023.

Seres Brasil Ltda* is a new company in Itupeva, State of São Paulo, to sell electric vans and trucks in Brazil built and supplied by Chinese vehicle builder, DFSK Motor of Chongqing.

The truck is operating in the new districts of Nordhavn, Sydhavn and Amager and reportedly finishes with 40% of its battery capacity still left unused at the end of a typical day.

The company announced the order of 150 E-Way 12-m long fully electric city buses from Italian bus operator Busitalia, with the first batch of 18 being delivered in July 2023 and staggered throughout until 2025.

Arrow Mobility presented its first e-Van / e-Truck model for the first time at Fenatran 2022 in November.

Through what is being abbreviated to CTC (Cell to Chassis) technology, the main components of the battery and other systems are integrated into the floor of the vehicle, eliminating the need for separate battery packs.

The ‘eyewatering’ USD480 million project involves demolishing the existing bus depot and building a new one 272 standard bus equivalent parking bays with charging access, three bus washing lanes, two chassis washing stations, an interior bus washing station, fifteen maintenance bays, rooftop bus parking and a three-story administrative building.

The repower application of an Optare Solo prototype has 280kW/h of battery capacity (DC charging only) and features a dual-motor solution from Advanced Electric Machines.

Volta Trucks stated that it is starting the year strongly with customer production orders filling the first 300 manufacturing slots of the battery-electric Volta Zero.

Forsee has signed a deal with battery cell manufacturer CALB to be supplied with battery cells which will be integrated into Forsee’s battery systems.

The companies agreed to test Nikola’s Class 8 battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell trucks at Allison’s 60,000-square-foot vehicle electrification and environmental test centre in Indianapolis, USA.

The move is a cost-cutting measure which will allow Proterra to concentrate its manufacturing activities at its two sites in South Carolina.