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.

Irizar eMobility, the electric mobility division of the Irizar Group, has announced it is moving to series production of its electric truck model by building ten ie Trucks with refuse collection bodies for municipal waste management operator, FCC Medio Ambiente.

Soon after the announcement by Irizar eMobility it had started series production of the Irizar ie Truck in Aduna, Spain, the electric mobility division of the Irizar Group announced it would be adding a modified electric truck model specifically tailored for the Swiss market.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc on June 8, 2021, through public offerings on the US Nasdaq Exchange and Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange of 20,930,000 shares at USD5.50 a share, generated USD115,115,000.00 in gross proceeds.

SAF Holland has reported test results from its initial test phase under real-world operation of its electric trailer axles, the SAF TRAKr and the SAF TRAKe, have proven to be successful.

Scandinavian Enviro Systems is in the process of getting planning to build a new end-of-life-vehicle-tyre recycling plant in Lillesjö, Uddevalla Municipality with an annual capacity capable of recycling half of all end-of-life tyres in Sweden.

Two years delayed, due to Covid 19, Dutch bus and coach builder, VDL, is planning to resume its plans to build a dedicated plant for electric bus production in Roeselare, Belgium with construction due to begin in the autumn of 2021.

BYD and Alexander Dennis have announced the 18, BYD ADL Enviro200EV 11m electric buses operating in New Zealand have now completed over one million kilometres in operation, reducing CO2 emissions by more than 1,000 tonnes.

BYD UK and Alexander Dennis which entered a working partnership agreement in October 2015 for electric buses, are celebrating the partnership's handover of its 500th electric bus.