Ashok Leyland Ltd last month started delivering its first batch of BSVI compliant trucks to its customers several months ahead of the BSVI emission standards deadline of April 1, 2020.

Reporting an 81st year of continuous profits, truck builder, Paccar Inc achieved record revenues of USD25.6bn for the year ending December 31, 2019 and an increase of 8.9% compared with USD23.50bn in 2018 and USD19.46bn in 2017.

India’s key supplier of exhaust systems, Sharada Motors Industries Ltd and Euro VI exhaust and emission control systems supplier for commercial vehicles, Eberspächer Exhaust Technology International GmbH, which have a 50:50 joint venture called Eberspaecher Sharda Exhaust Technology Pvt Ltd have opened a manufacturing plant in Pune.

Exhibiting at the World of Concrete exhibition early this month saw Navistar-owned International Truck launch new options of its vocational truck line-up.

Specialty truck builder, Mack Trucks, has entered the Class 6 and 7 medium-duty truck market in North America with the launch of the new Mack MD Series.

Iveco SpA is now producing Eurocargo 'Glider' chassis in its Brescia factory, as part of a collaboration with UK-based electric drivetrain specialist, Electra Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

Energy management specialist, ABB, has opened a battery energy storage manufacturing plant in Baden designed for storing electrical energy for charging electric trucks, electric buses and trolleybuses as well as electric and hybrid locomotives.

Last year Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus announced plans to allocate BRA110m million (USD27m) to make the necessary adjustments at its Resende (RJ) plant to tailor its production lines to begin assembling electric trucks as soon as 2020.

Iveco Defence Vehicles, a subsidiary of CNH Industrial NV, has won an order for potentially more than 2,900 high mobility heavy-duty  military trucks from the Romanian Ministry of National Defence.

Coinciding with start of production of the e-Sprinter in Dusseldorf – Mercedes-Benz Vans held the official commercial market launch of the eSprinter in six major German cities between the 9th and 17th of December 2019, marking its availability to customers.

The truck market in Brazil has continued its recovery and to expand strongly with sales exceeding 100,000 units in 2019, an increase of 33.3% compared with 75,994 units in 2018.

York-based CV and agricultural equipment manufacturer, Harsh UK Ltd is introducing major modifications to its hook-loader range to speed up operations.