Škoda says the value of the contract, including comprehensive service and maintenance up to 400,000 kilometres, exceeds EUR50m.

Subsidies are now based on performance and range.

A companion piece to last week's feature on Fusion Processing, this summarises the key points of the act, explaining what they mean for the future deployment of self-driving vehicles on British roads.

Plug Power says the loan will help to finance the construction of up to six projects to produce and liquefy hydrogen across America.

These buses have been integrated into the fleet of Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein (VHH), a major public transport operator in the area. Furthermore, Daimler announced that 350 more units had been ordered by the other operator managing Hamburg’s network, Hochbahn.

At the Mellatracks location, a 600m by 40m “snow flat”, a 200m-diameter “snow and ice circle”, and a 1,750m “snow handling track” have been added.

The double articulated lighTram Tosa trolleybus measures 24.7m long and has a capacity for up to 220 passengers. The first buses will be delivered in 2027 with the orders set to be completed by 2032.

The transaction concerns ‘Mahle Powertrain LLC’, a subsidiary based in Plymouth, Michigan whose seventy or so employees provide engineering and consultancy services for the design, testing, development, calibration, and integration of electric and hybrid powertrains.

For more conventional applications, such as electric vehicles, Microvast says that its solid-state technology could bring greater stability and therefore better performance than any cell currently on the market.

As part of its turnaround strategy and decision to outsource production and become an OED (Original Equipment Designer), the company announced a closed auction of bus, truck, and general automotive parts starting on Thursday, 23 January 2025.

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.