The Lion Electric Company, manufacturer of all-electric medium and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has been successful in using its electric school buses to supply electricity back to the grid, as part of the company’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) pilot deployment in White Plains.

CaetanoBus in December announced an order for eight hydrogen 12m buses from Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona for operation in the city of Barcelona for delivery at the end of 2021.

Detlef Borghardt and Dzeki Mackinovski have been elected new members of the board of trailer braking and suspension specialist, Haldex AB.

Nikola Corporation has signed a new global supply agreement with General Motors Company for the latter to supply it with hydrogen fuel cell systems for integration by Nikola into its heavy-duty on-highway trucks and tractor units – this  agreement supersedes and replaces the transaction announced on September 8, 2020.

Leyland Trucks Ltd, the producer of DAF trucks for right hand drive markets, last month celebrated production of its 200,000th LF chassis.

Daimler Trucks AG, Iveco SpA and the Volvo Group have committed to work alongside Austrian oil company, OMV and Dutch firm, Shell New Energies NL BV under a new EU initiative called H2Accelerate, to help create conditions for mass-market roll-out of hydrogen trucks in Europe.

Gainsborough-based Eminox Ltd is to retrofit emissions control solutions to 205 buses operated by First Group (Scotland) enabling compliance ahead of the introduction of Low Emissions Zones in Edinburgh, Dundee, and Aberdeen between February 2022 and May 2022, and Phase 2 in Glasgow in 2023.

Vancouver-based GreenPower Motor Company Inc, a manufacturer and distributor of zero emissions electric powered medium and heavy-duty vehicles, has delivered its first EV Star Cargo Plus delivery truck to the city of Vancouver.

Electric bus manufacturer, BYD Europe BV from its plant in Hungary has delivered the majority of what it claims is Europe’s largest single order for electric buses to Keolis Nederland BV.

Daimler Trucks AG has delivered a further four Fuso eCanters to PostNL, the Dutch postal service.

Air conditioning manufacturer, Hispacold International, says an independent test shows its eco3 air purifier is 99.7% effective in removing the coronavirus from the air.

New distribution electric truck start up, Volta Trucks has announced it has entered a long term strategic partnership with Petit Forestier SAS - the European leader in refrigeration rentals - to develop and build a full-electric refrigerated delivery truck.