BYD Company of Shenzhen has expanded its North American operations by opening its first bus assembly plant in Canada. Located in Newmarket, Ontario, the site provides a 45,000 square-foot facility and is the first new electric bus plant to open in Ontario in a generation.

Hamburg is to begin test operation of an autonomous passenger shuttle in August.

Electric bus builder, Ebusco is to supply 60 Ebusco 2.2 12m vehicles to bus operator, Qbuzz for operation in Groningen and Drenthe by the end of 2019.

Allison Transmission Inc has celebrated assembly of its 250,000th fully automatic transmission at its factory at Szentgotthárd.

Akia Avesto Automotive Industry LLC announced at Busworld Central Asia that in June this year it had inaugurated a bus factory in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Belkommunmash, a producer of trams, trolleybuses and more recently low floor full electric buses, used the inaugural Busworld Central Asia exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan to display two scale-models of its electric buses.

The Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications has confirmed an order for 183 BYD pure electric buses for operation in the capital of Santiago.

Astana Motors in March this year it had begun to assemble Chinese buses from Xiamen Golden Dragon Bus Co Ltd, according to Adilbek Gayev, the head of distribution for commercial vehicles at Astana at Busworld Central Asia in June. 

BMB Mode Center Ltda, the vehicle modification specialist for Volkswagen Trucks and Buses, has just completed 18 years of operations, manufacturing some 135,000 custom-built bodies in that timeframe.

Otokar attended Busworld Central Asia held in Almaty, Kazakhstan at the end of June to showcase its products in a country and region where it sees considerable potential for export growth.

In partnership with Volvo Buses Latin America, Marcopolo SA, in May and June delivered 120 new buses for the urban public transport system, Red Mobilidad in the Chilean capital city of Santiago.

Hakan Kefoğlu, export director for the bus and coach builder, Anadolu Isuzu speaking at Busworld Central Asia in Almaty last month said the company was actively looking to expand bus and coach sales in the region.