Volta Trucks will begin pilot testing of the 7.5- and 12-tonne variants in 2024, with series production in the following year, thus expanding the range of weight & length options for potential Volta Zero customers.

The automatic transmission system for heavy-duty vehicles, which boasts 99.7% efficiency in direct drive and a 12.83 Nm per kg ratio with either 12 or 16 forward gears, is billed as a lighter, more efficient, and less expensive option.

The Precedent S-750i, based on the company's S-Series, is reportedly its first TRU to use a diesel electric architecture with integrated shore power, designed to run more efficiently on shore power than diesel.

Amerit will become an Authorized Service Partner of ZEV, meaning that its staff will be trained and certified to carry out vehicle conversions on Class 2-4 commercial vehicles across the USA.

The American company commenced building a 110,000-square-foot extension to the powertrain plant in February 2020, where it will build its parent company's "common modular system" for trucks and buses made in North America.

The range of the ZX5, equipped with a 738-kWh battery, will exceed 300 miles, which Proterra claims will give it the largest energy storage of any 40-foot electric bus model on the market in North America.

Ebusco Holding N.V. has agreed a major framework agreement for up to 800 buses with Deutsche Bahn, the largest public transport operator in Germany.

Hyzon Motors Inc, based in Rochester, New York, is set to supply 18 fuel cell trucks to Hylane GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of German automotive insurance firm DEVK Versicherung. Deliveries of the vehicles are scheduled to begin in late 2022.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co has announced a multi-million-dollar programme supported by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), to develop a domestic source of natural rubber from a species of dandelion called Taraxacum kok-saghyz, known as TK.

California-based Kodiak Robotics Inc has announced a partnership with U.S. Xpress to deliver freight autonomously between Dallas-Fort Worth and Atlanta.

Ebusco Holding N.V. has released its financial results for the 2021 financial year. Total revenue was EUR24.3 million, a substantial decrease from the same measure for the 2020 financial year of EUR100 million.

The Lion Electric Co, based in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, has launched a new electric vehicle for the medium and heavy-duty last mile segment featuring a body from Transit Truck Bodies Inc, based in Laval, Quebec.