Cummins Inc, through its UK subsidiary, Cummins Turbo Technologies Ltd, is to lead a consortium focused on decarbonising heavy-duty powertrains in a UK-government and industry funded project, called TRIDENT.

BYD UK has confirmed its largest ever order for electric buses. RATP Dev London is to take delivery of 195, single and double deck buses for use on Transport for London services in London.

Volvo Trucks UK & Ireland has appointed Amy Stokes as Head of e-Mobility having recently opened its order book for the group’s Volvo FH, FM and FMX Electric heavy-duty truck model range.

Moscow hosted the Bauma СТТ Russia exhibition which was supported by more than 340 companies from 16 countries. In addition to specialist construction machinery, the show featured new heavy-duty tipper trucks from Russia’s traditional on-highway commercial vehicle builders.

Daimler Buses has its first order for fully electric city buses from Poland. The order is for eight articulated Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses and 16 solo buses.

Alexander Dennis has unveiled its first zero-emission, three-axle double deck bus through a virtual event at its Vehicle Innovation Centre in Anniston, Alabama.

E-mobility company, Quantron and hydrogen specialist, H2Go have joined forces to pool their knowledge and expertise to offer hydrogen-powered mobility solutions.

Volvo Group has announced investment of USD33m during a groundbreaking ceremony by Volvo Trucks North America at one of its main production sites in Hagerstown, Maryland.

GAZ has begun commercial production of the GAZelle NN, its latest generation of the GAZelle light truck range, with the NN being an abbreviation for Nizhny Novgorod, the city where the GAZ plant is located.

Andreas Tostmann CEO of MAN Truck & Bus officially opened the MAN eMobility Centre in Munich on June 9, 2021, for staff training in electric truck assembly and manufacture and for ‘eTruck’ manufacturing production and process development, with start of series production of electric trucks said to be sometime soon.

Irizar eMobility has supplied Barcelona operator Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona with nine articulated 18m ieTrams, they join four Irizar electric buses supplied to TMB in 2019.

Allison Transmission Europe has introduced two new versions of its xFE fully automatic transmission for use in medium-duty trucks in the EMEA region.