The project, developed with Emergency One, Cenex and the London Fire Brigade, is already being integrated into Emergency One’s EV0 electric fire appliance range, with Equipmake providing the energy management system. Still at the demonstrator stage, ZEPA V2V shows clear commercial potential to increase duty cycles of electric emergency vehicles.

India’s domestic sales of buses (GVW 7.5 tons and above) registered a modest increase of 6.6% in Q1 FY2025-26, rising to 18,137 units from 17,009 units in the same quarter of FY2024-25.

M&M has changed the company’s leadership structure.

‘Solar Control’ is the name given by Finn Lamex to a lamination foil sandwiched between two laminated panes of glass making up a windscreen.

The German supplier has reportedly hired nearly fifty new employees to work on a line that will produce high-voltage air conditioning compressors for electric vehicles.

Sales of light-duty buses and coaches (GVW ≤ 7.5t) grew by 8.8%, reaching 16,949 units in Q1 FY2025-26, compared with 15,571 units in Q1 FY2024-25.

Select models will be offered with extended warranty cover of up to five years or 200,000km.

There was a short span of time between the late 2010s and early 2020s when it seemed like retrofits would become a serious contender to new electric vehicles in the transition from the combustion engine. Several new companies began by offering retrofit services to convert used diesel vehicles to run on electric. Most of these startups have since fallen by the wayside; many of the remaining firms have survived by changing their business models. The general sluggishness of the electric vehicle market is, of course, partly to blame. However, these retrofit pioneers were also beset by unforeseen difficulties that made what appeared at the outset to be a winning formula – take a used vehicle, rip out the engine, put an electric powertrain in its place, and sell it on – into a more complicated equation. “We totally underestimated the complexity of converting a diesel vehicle into an electric one in the beginning,” said Holger Seefelder, who is responsible for commercial vehicle sales in the Europe, Middle East, & Africa region for German supplier Voith.

Miedreich will assume the CEO role as soon as incumbent CEO Dr Holger Klein and Prof Dr Peter Laier, the head of the Commercial Vehicle Solutions division, leave the company at the end of the month.

Industry leaders, operators and policymakers will discuss how long-distance coach travel can compete with air and private cars through zero-emission fleets, digital integration and cross-border policy alignment.

Around GBP4m has been committed to a furlough scheme that will run for twenty-six weeks, 80% of which will be provided by the Scottish government in order to prevent bus bodybuilding being moved from Scotland to ADL’s site in Scarborough, England.

Stellantis North America said it will discontinue development of the ‘Ram 1500 REV’ due to a decline in demand for electric vehicles in the North American market.