Carbuss has expanded its export range of models to Uruguay with the sale of its first El Buss 320L coach to Decatur, a coach operator in Cerro Largo city.

Scania’s president, Christopher Podgorski, made these statements during the AutoData Perspectives 2021 Congress, held in a virtual environment by AutoData Editora in late October.

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus is celebrating production of more than one million vehicles in Brazil; of this total, more than 850,000 have been manufactured by the VWCO industrial complex in Resende (RJ), which is celebrating 25 years of operations.

October saw two BYD electric city buses start research trials in Salvador, Bahia State, Brazil’s oldest city, on a 13.2km route between Pirajá Metro Station and São João Island.

An interview in November 2020 with Karl Deppen, president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil and CEO for Latin America with T&BB’s South American correspondent, Jose Secco, shared some important details about the Brazilian market as well as providing an outlook for CV demand over the coming years.

Marcopolo recorded net revenue of BRA836.5m in the third quarter of 2020, which was a reduction of 22.6% compared with BRA957m in the same period in 2019.

This order is made up of 310 single buses to be built on Volvo’s B8R rear engine chassis for operating on the zonal lines of the city’s integrated transport system.

It is the largest industrial complex of CNH Industrial’s brand operations in Latin America, where it develops and produces light commercial vehicles, trucks, bus chassis and defence vehicles.

The Board of Directors of the Ministry of Education of the Brazilian Government, on January 6, 2021, has indefinitely stopped the competitive tender for the supply of 6,900 buses under the Caminho da Escola Program (Federal School Bus Programme).

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus in December 2020 passed an export milestone of 5,000 commercial vehicles delivered to Colombia; the official 5,000th unit to be exported was a Constellation 19,360 V-Tronic truck.

Brazilian bus body manufacturer Caio, in partnership with Volvo Group Mexico, has supplied 87 new low floor Euro VI city buses as part of a renewal programme of the Passenger Transport Network (RTP) fleet in Mexico City.

BYD Co Ltd has won an order to supply Bogotá with 1,002 9m and 12m electric feeder buses from Bogotá City Public Transport Authority, which sets a record for a single overseas order.