The vehicle was extensively tested at Ottawa’s Area X.O facility, a proving ground for connected and autonomous vehicles. It is scheduled to enter service in October 2025, operating on public roads in mixed traffic.

Patrick Burghardt replaces Aydogan Cakmaz, who has retired

From a group of old farm buildings in Oxfordshire, one man hopes to change the world’s approach to decarbonising heavy vehicles. In 2022, James Budgett set up a holding company, Metier Ventures, and bought Metier Technologies Ltd, a company which he had established back in 1984, from foreign ownership. With financial support from a business partner, Budgett set the company on a new course: converting diesel trucks to run solely on hydrogen. Although the idea of retrofitting a used vehicle is not an original one, Metier’s proposed business model differs from the usual course of carrying out the conversion work on the diesel engine. Instead, Metier would replace the old engine entirely with a gas engine, fresh off the production line, with a few tweaks and some substitute parts so it will run on hydrogen. With this model, Budgett believes he can offer an attractive and scalable alternative that remains far cheaper than acquiring a brand-new electric vehicle.

The new models to be sold in the Americas from 2028.

Under the draft, different types of commercial vehicles would carry different colour-coded plates to first identify them as being hydrogen-powered and then to identify them as being in a certain segment.

Together with the Terberg group and Terberg Environmental, Ros Roca opened a new facility at the Tàrrega site, expanding the total site area to 96,000 square metres.

The new LPO 1622 model, designed for staff transport, is powered by a 5.6L Euro VI engine, producing 220 hp and 925 Nm of torque.

She will succeed Francesco Ciancia in the head of operations role following Ciancia’s departure from the company.

VECV is introducing six models under the Pro Plus name.

The company has discontinued TBR production at its Modipuram plant in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, effective June 2, 2025.

Cummins claims the High Power Density engine brake provides up to 40% higher levels of supplemental braking force at high engine speeds and an up-to-100% improvement at lower RPM cruising speeds.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw continued to grow in the second quarter of 2025, rising by almost 7% to 30,717 units from 28,736 in the same period last year.