Forsee Power (Forsee) of Paris, France, has renewed its supply partnership agreement for battery cells with South Korean firm, LG Energy Solution (LG).

The specialty truck manufacturer reported a net income of USD6.2m and sales of USD1.79bn in the final months of 2021.

Up to 40 new jobs will be created at the facility in Northern Ireland, in response to increasing orders from Mallaghan's customers in the commercial air transport sector.

Langendorf will replace Pietro Zollino, who took up a new role at Traton on 1 November 2021.

New Anthem and Pinnacle trucks will now come with Mack Predictive Cruise Control with Econo-Roll to promote greater efficiency and fuel savings.

Ford Motor Co, based in Dearborn, Michigan, has started shipping the first models of the all-electric E-Transit to its Ford Pro commercial customers. Ford has already received orders for more than 10,000 units of the E-Transit which it says have come from over 300 different customers.

Cummins Inc of Columbus, Indiana, has announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Bloomfield, Connecticut-based Jacobs Vehicle Systems Inc¹ from parent group Altra Industrial Motion Corp. Operations from the acquisition will report into the Cummins Turbo Technologies business unit within the firm’s Components segment.

Faurecia of Nanterre, France has acquired a controlling interest (79.5%) in family-owned automotive electrical lighting specialist, Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA of Lippstadt, Germany.

Daimler India has opend its first dealership in the Union Territory of Jammu, in association with PAL Trucking - a reflection of the increasing demand for BharatBenz products in northern India.

Tractor sales grew by 70.7% during the third quarter (October to December) during financial year 2021-22 (Q3:21/22 to register 6,910 units compared with 4,049 units in the same quarter of the previous year (FY20/21), with the heavy weight tractor segment being the main contributor to growth.

Sales of LCV goods carrier (truck) vehicles (gvw ≤ 7.5t) fell by 8.5% to 127,213 units in Q3 of FY 2021/22 from 139,041 units in same period of FY 2020/21.

Sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t gvw and above) in October to December or Q3 of FY2021-22 in India grew by 17.6% to register 53,450 units, up from 45,432 units in same quarter of the previous fiscal year.