Gillig has apparently bought the former Lightning eMotors site in Loveland, Colorado, and it will retain some of the company's engineers in order to turn it into a dedicated electric powertrain technology hub. 

The joint venture facility will grow quickly over the next several years, with the aim of recycling one million metric tons of vehicle tyre material by 2030, representing a third of all end-of-life tyres in Europe. 

Before joining Bendix, Stroka was a member of the Knorr-Bremse management board since 2020 where he was responsible for the European CVS division.

LG Energy Solution Ltd is to supply 200,000 battery cell modules over a three-year period to Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT) for heavy-duty battery systems in commercial vehicles and other transportation vehicles.

From 7 July this year, all newly registered vehicles in the European Union must comply with the second tranche of rules known as the ‘General Safety Regulation’ (“GSR II”). These regulations will require all new road vehicles to be installed with more advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) which employ some of the latest innovations being made at the cutting edge of artificial intelligence. These include systems for intelligent speed assistance; reversing detection with cameras and/or sensors; attention warnings in case of driver drowsiness or distraction; event data recorders; and emergency stop signals.

The companies are developing a scalable solid-state battery using sodium-metal-chloride battery cells. Comau has been tasked with designing the cell digitalisation and automation strategy, which aims to accelerate solid-state battery development.

With almost CNY1bn (USD138m) invested in the new “Super Plant”, which occupies an area of 72,000 sq m, it can assemble and paint up to 320,000 sets of drive axles per year.

Cummins is offering its remaining stake (80.5%) in Atmus to its shareholders, who have the option of exchanging Cummins common stock for shares in Atmus (at a 7% discount).

Isuzu together with partner, Honda, last month began testing a prototype of the Giga Fuel Cell heavy-duty truck on roads in Japan.

Einride has partnered with American food producer Mars Inc, to provide a fleet of digitally optimised electric heavy-duty trucks across Mars’ European network by 2030.

The ‘Truckstar LED H7’ is an aftermarket product for retrofitting to a truck in order to provide increased visibility and safety.

Allison is set to supply Oshkosh Corporation with electric axles for North America’s first fully integrated electric refuse vehicle, the McNeilus Volterra ZSL.