Rådström was appointed to the board on 1 January, joining John O’Leary, president and CEO of Daimler Truck North America; Stefan Kürschner, CFO of Daimler Truck NA; and Peter Vaughan Schmidt, the CEO of Torc.

The order is for 1,621 buses and 42 heavy-duty trucks.

Comgás installing natural gas refuelling stations for three major operating companies Ypê, Nelcar and Grupo SADA in the state of São Paulo.

Q3 tractor unit sales totalled 16,490 units compared with 17,025 units.

The truck, an ‘E-Tech C’, is a five-axle model which can carry up to ten cubic metres of concrete in a Stetter-branded mixer developed by Schwing Group of Germany.

Sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t GVW and above) in India declined to 60,215 units in Q3 (63,469).

At the end of January, the European Commission kicked off a series of strategic dialogues with business leaders from the automotive industry to review regulations which set mandatory CO2 emission targets for newly-registered vehicles. In a press release, the ACEA alleged that car and van manufacturers could face fines of up to EUR16bn this year for failing to comply with the regulation. Cummins expects that a similar target for CVs – a 43% reduction starting in 2030 – will not be achieved without a drastic transformation of the market. Echoing the opinion of the ACEA, Lamb told Truck & Bus Builder that “the rollout of infrastructure for both electric and hydrogen vehicles is slower than will be needed to meet the 2030 target”.

The truck developed by Scania is a 230-kW series hybrid running primarily on battery-electric power, with a 120-kW petrol-powered generator to provide backup energy.

The trailer manufacturer has appointed Drew Schwartzhoff as Chief Commercial Officer and Donald Winston as Chief Operating Officer.

The ‘CT6000E’, which was developed collaboratively between Mallaghan and International, was unveiled at the Logan International Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

The company has signalled its intention to move away from its work on self-driving vehicles towards applications in the digital entertainment industry, after coming under investigation from American authorities for illicit technology transfers to China (settled in 2024).

Oxon claims that its drop-in fuel can reduce particulate matter by as much as 90%, thus reducing NOx emissions by 60% and CO2e emissions by 21%.