Electric bus producer, Ebusco Holding BV of Deurne has appointed Bob Fleuren to head its Production and Project Management departments. A specialist in lightweight composites technology, Fleuren gained experience from the aerospace industry via roles within the Dutch Royal Air Force and aircraft manufacturer Fokker, among others.

The BYD-ADL partnership for the British market is introducing additional electric bus charging options to improve operational flexibility. In addition to AC plug charging, all zero emission buses can now be specified with DC sockets, while double deck buses also have the option of roof-mounted connector rails for OppCharge pantographs.

The Peruvian market ended the first quarter of 2021 with the sale of 4,401 commercial vehicles, an increase of 42.1% compared with 3,098 units in the first three months of 2020. This was the best first quarter result in seven years, since 2014, when 5,382 units were sold.

A new company manufacturing trailers has been established in Brazil called Estrada Implementos Rodoviários Ltda. The new company is based in Caxias do Sul, Brazil’s principal trailer-producing hub, and has been set up by Marcos Guerra, former director of Guerra S.A., which was founded by his father and whose share control was sold in 2008 to French investment fund, Axxon Group.

In April 2021, Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda of Resende, Rio de Janeiro announced it would be starting series production of the e-Delivery within the first semester and that it will go on sale in the second half of the year through its main concessionaires across the country.

Randon S/A Implementos e Participações has made its first export of platform semi-trailers to Senegal. The deal marks the resumption of export business to the African continent in 2021 for the trailer division and in May, there will be another shipment to Senegal, but this time of tank and tipping trailers.

Announcing a substantial increase in truck sales in Chile during the first quarter of 2021 of 45.8% to register 344 units (236), Scania Chile SA, headquartered in Santiago de Chile, said this performance had further consolidated its market position of second in the country.

Scania Latin America Ltda of São Bernardo do Campo, SP, has won an order for 200, Scania RH500 and RH540 extra-heavy-duty tractor units from Grupo G10 Ltda of Maringa in the State of Paraná, representing an investment of more than BRA100m (USD17.5m).

LIH, a division of Group I. Reidi & Cia Ltda of Cascavel, Paraná State, has bought the operational assets of Guerra S.A. of Caxias do Sul, which had been Brazil’s second largest trailer and body builder, until its bankruptcy in 2017.

Bus and coach body builder, Metalsur Carrocerias SA has reported record sales growth of 321.8% for 2020 with registrations of 232 bus and coach bodies compared with just 55 units in 2019.

DAF Caminhões Brasil Ltda has started production of its latest version of the CF tractor range at its plant in Ponta Grossa, Paraná State, Brazil for both the on- and off-highway markets, as well as a CF rigid truck model, marking its entry into the rigid truck distribution segment in Brazil for the first time.

DAF Caminhões Brasil has launched a new off-road tractor unit in its new CF range, the chassis has been fully reinforced to handle severe off-road applications such as sugarcane and timber operations and offering gross train weights of up to 125 tons.