Continental officially inaugurated its new multimillion-euro corporate headquarters on the Hans-Böckler-Allee campus, in Hanover, Germany on December 13, 2023. The campus consists of six buildings, housing over 2,400 employees, in both the Tires and ContiTech groups.

Currently, the multinational is retreading more than one million of its commercial vehicle tyres a year throughout its retread plants/subsidiaries worldwide. This all falls below the ContiLifeCycle* sustainable strategy, aiming to maximise tyre longevity for customers and improve environmental sustainability.

The Thai market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw fell by 22% to 82,386 units in the third quarter of 2023.

At the annual media event in December last year, members of the UK press gathered in Oxford for the State of the Nation address from DAF Trucks UK senior management.

The truck, branded as ‘Paul Hydrogen Power’ (PH2P), is built on a 16-tonne Mercedes-Benz ‘Atego’ glider chassis and is powered by the ‘Voith Electrical Drive System’ (VEDS), which provides 310 kW of continuous power and 410 kW of peak power.

According to the terms of the agreement, Symbio will play the role of mentor to startups working in the hydrogen sector.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in South Korea declined sharply in the third quarter of 2023, by almost 16% to 53,168.

According to the Department for Transport, all new sales of cars and vans powered solely by an internal combustion engine (ICE) will be banned by 2035, with heavy-goods vehicles following suit in 2040. This has now become law in the UK, as part of the country's Net Zero Strategy.

Late last year in New York, Trevor Milton was sentenced to four years in prison, convicted of fraud after persistently lying to investors and the general public about the capabilities of Nikola’s EV products and technologies.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw continued to grow strongly in the third quarter of 2023, by 18% year-on-year to 32,128.

The eCanter was originally launched in 2017, with a new upgraded model made available since last year. It is sold in a growing number of markets in Asia, including Taiwan from last month.

Isuzu has announced plans to build an electric vehicle development and testing facility within its Fujisawa plant, to help it achieve its target of having a full range of carbon-neutral vehicles by 2030.