UK electric delivery van start-up, Arrival Ltd, has received an order from logistics giant, UPS, for 10,000 purpose-built electric vehicles.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd in Mumbai last month unveiled no fewer than 12 all-new BS VI-compliant medium and heavy-duty BharatBenz-branded trucks and buses, which have been fully updated inside and out, said the company.

LCV sales in Russia decreased by 1.9% to 104,224 units in 2019 from 106,224 vehicles in 2018 with the sales of foreign brands contracting by 6.5% from 36,670 to 34,288 units and the sales of Russia LCVs inching up by 0.5% from 69,554 to 69,936 units, according to statistics collated by Avtostat Info.

Truck (>5t gvw) sales in Russia in 2019 totalled 78,807 units, which was 3.3% fewer than the 80,702 trucks registered in 2018, according to figures produced by Avtostat Info.

Norwegian grocery distributor, ASKO AS last month began pilot operation of four Scania hydrogen fuel cell 26+1 tonnes gross vehicle weight trucks with an electric driveline.

Peterbilt Motors has supplied Werner Enterprises with a Model 579EV for its battery electric-powered truck pilot programme.

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.