When Jim Hutchinson – today the CEO and founder of Fusion Processing Ltd, an autonomous vehicle technology company based in Bristol – began his career in electronic engineering, he could not have imagined that the radar and sensor equipment he was working on would eventually be used to make buses and trucks that can drive themselves. “I can’t claim to have been that visionary [back then],” he told Truck & Bus Builder in an interview. The realisation dawned in the late 2000s, when Hutchinson saw that the growing need for sophisticated sensors in the automotive sector – used at that time for advanced driver assistance systems – would “ultimately” lead to self-driving vehicles navigating with a combination of cameras, radars, and other perception hardware.

Moreover, the group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian firm, agreeing to offtake 100,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate per year over a ten-year term.

The Karsan Level 4 autonomous e-ATAK is set to start carrying passengers in Gothenburg between the Central Station and Liseberg Station in August 2025.

In January 2025 New York State Governor Kathy Hochul announced a new round of USD 100 million in State funding for the purchase of new zero-emission buses as well as the necessary charging equipment/refuelling technology.

Chan Galbato will replace Wendy Kei as chairman of the board.

The South Korean province aims to replace its entire fleet of diesel-powered buses by 2030.

The order was placed in honour of Prevost’s one-hundredth anniversary which it celebrated in 2024.

This is the largest tender Iveco  Bus has won in the German market to date. Deliveries will start in 2025 and continue through to 2030.

Repower said in a press release dated 20 December 2024 that it acquired the entire intellectual property and patent portfolio from ‘Zevx Liquidators LLC’, a special-purpose entity which was formed to liquidate ZEVx’s assets and pay back creditors as an alternative to Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Maxion announced that, upon Neto’s appointment, Ralf Duning, who served ten years as vice president of global engineering, will retire from the company.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in Vietnam continued to recover in the third quarter of 2024, with sales growing by 21%.

The compact design of the 14Xe has allowed for a shorter wheelbase, something which Thomas Built Buses says was “highly requested” by customers.