The proportion of vehicles sold with electric, hydrogen and hybrid drives increased from 41% to over half (55% - 823 versus 669 units with internal combustion engines), marking the first time in the company’s history that buses with alternative drives have outsold conventional ones. 

The vehicles will be powered by BAE Systems’ third generation Series-E full hybrid drivetrain, consisting of a 250kW electric traction motor, a 150kW Euro 6 combustion engine, and a 1kWh ultracapacitor energy storage system.

The brand organises a disparate set of different business operations which relate to transport and industry decarbonisation, including: fuel cell and battery manufacturing; electric powertrain products; and electrolysers for producing green hydrogen.

Excluding the contribution from the recently-acquired Meritor, Cummins made USD26.2bn, a 9% improvement on the year before (USD24bn).

The new Eletra e-bus is a collaboration between Mercedes-Benz and Caio.

The company announced the appointment of Barbaros Oktay to the new role of Head of Bus, replacing Rudi Kuchta in the leadership role of MAN’s bus division.

This new division is the working combination of two formerly independent companies, V.S.E. Vehicle Systems Engineering B.V. (VSE) of Veenendaal, near Utrecht, Netherlands and Hemscheidt Fahrwerktechnik GmbH & Co. KG of Haan, Germany.

The seven major markets of East Asia (excluding China) has grown by 125,000 commercial vehicles in the last two years.

Renault Trucks has stated that CampX Lyon will cater exclusively to start-ups with new ideas for decarbonisation, urban logistics, and vehicle uptime.

Marcopolo's fiscal action plan paying off, says CEO.

CME reported total bus and coach registrations in EU27+4 of 25,658 units in 2022, a decrease of 5.9% from 27,277 units in 2021 and a 22.2% fall from the record year in 2019 of almost 33,000 (Note: Figures for 2020 are not provided by CME).

CME’s figures indicate that after seven straight years of growth of city buses powered with alternative drivelines, deliveries in 2022 within the EU27+4 countries fell marginally in volume terms to 9,543 units, down from 9,813 in 2021.