The double articulated lighTram Tosa trolleybus measures 24.7m long and has a capacity for up to 220 passengers. The first buses will be delivered in 2027 with the orders set to be completed by 2032.

The Volterra ZFL, like the ZSL, is a fully-integrated waste collection truck, built from the ground up as an electric vehicle.

Its sales projection for the first year of operation is to export over 100 units and in five years to time exceed 750 units annually.

Following the tests, which were conducted by TÜV Rheinland, SAG’s liquid hydrogen tanks are now certified as safe in the event of an accident involving fire.

The transaction concerns ‘Mahle Powertrain LLC’, a subsidiary based in Plymouth, Michigan whose seventy or so employees provide engineering and consultancy services for the design, testing, development, calibration, and integration of electric and hybrid powertrains.

The initiative presents the market with an integrated and sustainable logistics model for natural gas and biomethane-powered trucks.

For more conventional applications, such as electric vehicles, Microvast says that its solid-state technology could bring greater stability and therefore better performance than any cell currently on the market.

When it opens, the hub will host pilot testing with customers, leading onto full commercialisation in 2027.

Net revenue tipped the BRA 1 billion mark, representing a 16.6% increase on Q3 in 2023.

As part of its turnaround strategy and decision to outsource production and become an OED (Original Equipment Designer), the company announced a closed auction of bus, truck, and general automotive parts starting on Thursday, 23 January 2025.

When Jim Hutchinson – today the CEO and founder of Fusion Processing Ltd, an autonomous vehicle technology company based in Bristol – began his career in electronic engineering, he could not have imagined that the radar and sensor equipment he was working on would eventually be used to make buses and trucks that can drive themselves. “I can’t claim to have been that visionary [back then],” he told Truck & Bus Builder in an interview. The realisation dawned in the late 2000s, when Hutchinson saw that the growing need for sophisticated sensors in the automotive sector – used at that time for advanced driver assistance systems – would “ultimately” lead to self-driving vehicles navigating with a combination of cameras, radars, and other perception hardware.

Moreover, the group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian firm, agreeing to offtake 100,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate per year over a ten-year term.