“In five years, i.e. by 2025, we will no longer have available diesel trucks from 7.5 tonnes up to 26 tonnes,” stated Rémi Lemoine, responsible for alternative solutions at Volvo Trucks France, at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon last month.

The Irizar ieTruck, developed by Irizar Group's eMobility division in conjunction with Municipal Services giant, FCC Medio Ambiente Company, won the Innovative Idea category at the 2019 Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona last month.

Three months’ on from the strategic and exclusive heavy-duty truck partnership signed between CNH Industrial NV and Nikola Corporation, the partners, in Turin this month, announced it was now giving maximum priority to the development of its European business.

Nikola is now the new brand name for heavy-duty battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell tractor units from Iveco in Europe.

SAF-Holland USA Inc, a manufacturer of commercial vehicle components at the NACV Show in Atlanta, Georgia launched SMAR-te Tire Pilot – an intelligent evolution of tyre pressure management.

BPW Bergische Achsen claims its new AirSave tyre pressure control system pays for itself in the first year, as the system achieves enormous savings in terms of fuel, tyres and time.

Electric truck builder, Workhorse Group Inc, has entered into an intellectual property licensing agreement with Lordstown Motors Corporation - a private corporate entity founded by former Workhorse CEO, Steve Burns.

Thomas Built Buses Inc has selected the Allison 2500 automatic transmission as part of the Pupil Transport/Shuttle Series for its new Safe-T-Liner C2 propane autogas school bus.

Following a pledge by the UK government to create Britain’s first ‘all-electric bus towns’, automotive engineering, testing and R&D consultancy, Horiba MIRA Ltd, is advising operators to consider converting their existing bus fleets from diesel powered units to electric drive systems as a way to helping the UK to achieve a cleaner public transport network.

Gray & Adams, a supplier of temperature-controlled semi-trailers and rigid vehicle bodywork, has designed an automated loading pod, built inside an extra-long 15.6m refrigerated body, which can hold up to 60 pallets at temperatures as low as -22 degrees C.

Atomic City Transit has ordered two Proterra Inc, Catalyst 35-foot E2 buses and two Proterra 125 kW plug-in charging systems.

Daimler Trucks & Buses, the commercial vehicle division of Daimler AG, last month announced it is pursuing a strategy to offer only new vehicles that are CO2-neutral in driving operation in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039.