The new engine will be provided as an option for Scania's new high-floor K-chassis for coaches.

The 50 Stralis NG 460 trucks, powered by LNG, will serve Moy Park in Sleaford and Ashbourne.

Iveco SpA of Turin, Italy, has announced the sale of 120 LNG S-WAY trucks to GLS Italy, a subsidiary of the GLS Group. The new S-WAY tractor units are powered by LNG or bio-LNG, with the latter expected to be the primary fuel used by GLS.

Quantum Fuel Systems will supply Q-Rail CNG fuel storage systems to work with IFS's retrofit Multi Fuel Technology Platform which allows diesel engines to use a mix of diesel and alternative fuels.

Cummins will have equal ownership of Texan-based Momentuum Fuel Technologies, which specialises in on-board CNG fuel storage and delivery systems.

West Bengal Transport Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Bengal Gas Co to set up CNG re-fuelling stations for the operation of a fleet of buses converted from diesel to CNG.

Tata Motors supplied 50 Tata/Marcopolo-bodied CNG buses to the Bihar State Road Transport Corporation, which marked the first time the state has taken buses powered using natural gas. 

VECV has delivered 50 units of its 24-seat Eicher CNG AC buses to transport operator, PMPML, the first time the joint venture has delivered gas buses to the city of Pune.

With sales of Scania CNG (natural and/or biomethane) trucks heading northwards of 150 units, one operator on its own now accounts for 50 of these sales.

Collaboration between Scania’s bus and coach division, Gasum and Flixbus, will see the introduction of the first biogas-fuelled long distance LNG-powered coach route between Stockholm and Oslo.

Scania Latin America Ltda and Comgás, the largest natural gas distributor in Brazil, have announced they are cooperating to initiate several joint actions to accelerate the development of the gas-powered commercial vehicles (natural gas and biomethane) in Brazil.  

Sales of trucks and bus chassis by Iveco Latin America Ltda grew 71% in the first half of this year, well above the market average, which was around 50%.