Hino's shareholding is to be cut from 50% to 4.83% in GAC Hino Motors Company Ltd, with a 39.72% stake being transferred to Guangzhou Automobile Group.

An experienced transport policy and public affairs specialist, Robert Gwynn joins the company with the role of getting more alternatively fuelled vehicles across its fleet.

Production in 2023 totalled 19,612 vehicles, according to FABUS.

The CV market in Colombia ended 2023 with the sale of 32,511 vehicles, down 23.5% on the 42,488 units sold in 2022.

According to data from ACAU (Association of Uruguay), 3,137 trucks and buses were sold, compared with 2,993 in the previous year.

The valve cap sensor is screwed directly onto the valve of a bus, truck or trailer tyre and measures the tyre pressure in real time. The data is accessed through the ContiConnect tyre app. This entry-level valve cap solution allows fleet managers quicker and easier tyre management, saving time and boosting profitability.

Ecuador, one of the smallest South American markets for motor vehicles, virtually stood still in terms of registrations in 2023 v 2022 with an increase of just 0.2%

he Peruvian CV market finished the year in 2023 with the sale of 17,327 trucks and buses, 2.3% down in the 17,729 vehicles sold in the previous year.

The Brazilian commercial vehicle market registered 128,777 trucks and buses (commercial vehicles at 3.5 tonnes and above GVW), a drop of 12.05% compared with 146,429 units sold in 2022.

Production of trucks and buses of 6t GVW and above in Brazil fell by 37.5% in 2023 to 121,133 units (trucks and buses) compared with 193,765 in the previous year.

The importance of fire suppression systems in vehicles can be seen first-hand in January this year, with an electric double-decker bus catching fire in Wimbledon, UK.

Annual sales of trucks  and buses in Argentina of 6t gvw and above held up remarkably well in 2023 to register 14,163 vehicles as compared with 14,668, a decline of just 3.4%.