Kempower has equipped one of Europe’s largest electric bus depots in Via Ferrarese, Bologna, with 20 DC bottom-up pantograph chargers. Significantly, this is the first bus depot in Italy to utilise charging equipment from Kempower.

Karsan has signed a local distribution and aftersales agreement with KMobility S.R.L. This, according to CEO Okan Baş will help strengthen its aftersales services and spare parts distribution ecosystem in Italy.

ZF India is implementing its 2021 REFRESH INDIA strategy, which focuses on offering next generation mobility solutions through the combination of the   ZF technologies, as well as new emerging ACE technologies - Autonomous, Connected and Electrification.

Bus and coach domestic sales (>7.5t gvw) in FY2023 (ending March 31, 2024) increased by 38.4% to 53,136 units.

The MoU outlines an investment over a span of five years, with the potential to generate up to 5,000 jobs, both directly and indirectly.

JBM is becoming a major suppliers of city buses in India. It also has plans to export to Europe.

The plant is to have the capacity to produce 2,500 buses annually, but has been designed with the opportunity to double this, when required.

The facility is fully digitally controlled and is equipped with advanced storage systems, including gravity spiral and vertical reciprocating conveyors.

The Mellor and Treka sales teams, which were previously separate from one another, will be combined under the joint leadership of three newly elected sales personnel.

Domestic sales of buses and coach (7.5t gvw and above) increased by 39.6% in Q4 of the financial year 2023 (ending March 31, 2024) to register 20,048 units.

Sales of light-duty vehicles (7.5t & below) grew by 9.5% to register 15,370 units in Q4 of FY 2023 (ending March 31, 2024).

The market demand fell by 2.8% in the fourth fiscal year quarter of 2023/24