‘Renault Trucks UK Training Academy’, located in the village of Whetstone, near Leicester, will provide accredited and manufacturer-specific technical training to technicians and apprentices, combining practical and classroom-based learning.

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.

‘Transporeon Integrated App Program’ (TIAP), described by the company as an “application integration framework”, is intended to ensure interoperability between a carrier’s transport management system and Transporeon’s own data management and sharing platform, eliminating the need for extra work to integrate the two.

Nuvve will offer to its customers a range of bidirectional and unidirectional chargers with power outputs ranging between 20 and 360 kilowatts, manufactured by Tellus Power Green.

Under the terms of the agreement, REE will provide its ‘P7-C’ chassis-cabs to Mission Mobile Medical, which will build custom medical facility bodies on the fully-flat chassis platform.

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).

The company has launched two new services designed for the evaluation, verification, and benchmarking of AI-powered systems.

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”.