By consolidating and restructuring the merged businesses, Schaeffler aims to reduce its outgoings by about EUR290m per annum by 2029.

New Flyer says it will repurpose existing space at its production facility in Winnipeg and lease another site for final vehicle commissioning.

Lat.bus takes place every two years.

Over a year ago, British startup Tevva Motors Ltd – which had already raised millions of dollars in funding on the strength of its 7.5 tonne prototype electric truck – announced plans to merge with an American company called ElectraMeccanica. It was an unlikely match: ElectraMeccanica had launched a single product, a battery-powered three-wheeler, which had to be recalled due to numerous technical faults. Following the merger, the new company, called ‘Tevva Inc’, would begin with a cash balance between USD70-80m, debts of USD26m, and two facilities on either side of the Atlantic. It was apparently a marriage of convenience: a means to recapitalise Tevva’s business and enter the American market; and when the deal collapsed, the declaration of bankruptcy, which came six months later, seemed as inevitable as the change of seasons.

The new product portfolio aims to meet the main needs of independent truck drivers and small and medium-sized fleets in the country that operate regional cargo and passenger transportation services.

The Gen 3 Battery Electric buses are offered in two lengths (35 and 40 ft), featuring a Cummins EV powertrain and an Akasol (BorgWarner) AKASystem 9 AKM 150 CYC battery system for the following available capacity configurations: 490 kWh, 588 kWh and 686 kWh.

Transdev says it will deploy them in the Province of Utrecht in the central Netherlands.

New Flyer will supply 108 units of its ‘Xcelsior Charge FC’ range of hydrogen-powered electric buses, all measuring forty feet in length, to SamTrans.

This achievement results from the involvement of almost the entire supply chain, VWCO said, with 90% of its suppliers already involved in this procedure.

Training initially in electrical engineering, Ujkashevic spent thirty-one years at Ford in multiple engineering, design, and innovation leadership roles.

At IAA Transportation 2024, held between 17-22 September in Hanover, Germany, Brazilian trailer and components firm Randoncorp presented products from its auto parts brands, including wheel-end components from Castertech, brake systems from Master Freios (a joint venture with Cummins), and axles, suspensions, and e-mobility products from Suspensys. However, the group’s most interesting showcase was invisible to the naked eye. In its axle products lay hidden a secret ingredient measurable only on the nanoscale: a niobium compound, which has the power to augment the mechanical properties of steel while considerably reducing its weight. It also improves the performance of other materials, enabling them to achieve their full potential.

Carrying up to seventy-one passengers, the bus offers a range of up to 360 kilometres with an installed capacity of 350 kilowatt-hours.