Scania’s kneeling L-series truck designed for urban applications is now available with the 6.7-litre, six cylinder Scania DC07 engine as an option to the original nine-litre, five cylinder DC09.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc last month at TEC Equipment in Fontana offered customers a first look at its North American Class 8 battery-electric project trucks.

Vehicle conversion engineering specialist, Hyliion Inc, says it is to deliver three hybrid electric tractor units to Penske Truck Leasing, all incorporating its 6X4HE Class 8 hybrid system, this year.

DAF Trucks has produced its 10,000th ‘Paccar’ body at its truck manufacturing facility in Leyland, operated by its subsidiary company, Leyland Trucks Ltd.

MAN Truck & Bus AG has launched its new range of TG trucks, comprising the traditional nomenclature, TGL, TGM, TGS and TGX  models, which come with a range of eight new cab options.

2019 was a good year for DAF Trucks, achieving a market share of 16.2% in the heavy segment in Europe - the second largest in the history of the company and placing DAF in the top three large truck manufacturers in Europe.

The heavy truck market in the European Union plus EFTA countries has grown five straight years in a row to total 321,785 units in 2019, according to figures collated by ACEA.

Ricardo Performance Products is to support the first phase of commercial industrialisation of the SuperTurbo system – a unique planetary traction drive developed by SuperTurbo Technologies Inc enabling high speed power transfer to and from a turbocharger shaft, which the partners states offers significant driveability and fuel efficiency benefits for large trucks.

PJSC KamAZ has developed a prototype of a cab-less autonomous (self-driving) electric truck, called Kamaz-3373 Chelnok (Shuttle) for operations in closed spaces.

French automotive components manufacturer, Faurecia SA, has won a contract to supply hydrogen storage systems for trucks built by Hyundai Motor Company of Seoul.

DAF Trucks NV, has started field testing two CF Hybrid trucks with Dutch transport operator, Peter Appel, used to supply supermarkets in the Netherlands.

A pair of FUSO eCanter 7.49t electric delivery trucks have entered service with operators in Copenhagen, the first in Scandinavia. One has joined the fleet of Citylogistik and the other is with Aastiderne, two well-known Danish transport operators.