The funding is to be used to support deployment of 350 fully air-conditioned, 9-metre electric buses across eight cities in Uttar Pradesh.

All of the buses are Viking models fitted with Ashok Leyland’s iGen6 BS VI, H Series engine.

Grants totalling USD1.7bn will be made available to support as many as eleven closed or at-risk automotive manufacturing and assembly facilities in switching to the production of electric vehicles and components.

Moreover, Thomas Built Buses has announced that its new Type D buses will now be produced in Archdale, North Carolina rather than at High Point.

The project will evaluate the performance of these fuel cell electric buses in the Delhi NCR region's challenging climate, focussing on how local fuel and air quality affect the buses' efficiency, longevity, and operational reliability in transit bus fleets.

The 1,826-unit figure recorded for Q2 2024 massively outperformed the same period of the year before, when SMMT reported Britain’s best Q2 registrations since 2019 (1,129).

The acquisition is expected to leverage the expertise of the Roberto Nuti Group to enhance SI Airsprings product offerings as well as strengthen its global market position.

The formal split and formal establishment of the two entities will take place at the start of the next fiscal year, i.e. April 1, 2025.

Imagry’s self-driving technology employs vision-based perception, using 11 cameras installed around the bus. This is combined with real-time mapping capabilities which negate the need for pre-downloaded HD maps; the software learns its environment as the vehicle navigates and receives visual information from the cameras.

BYD will deliver 120 e-buses to South African bus operator Golden Arrow, marking the first electric bus fleet in the country. The first batch of electric buses will be delivered to Cape Town in Q4 2024, with full delivery by the end of 2025.

Seeing Machines’ technology, which tracks the driver’s face and behaviour to identify and react to distraction or drowsiness, was tested and certified successfully for use in buses produced by Wrightbus.

New Flyer’s ‘Xcelsior Hybrid’ will be offered with a new BAE powertrain, adding a ‘GPM’ direct drive motor and a ‘Modular Power Control System’ (MPCS), alongside other components which were in previous models.