Specialty truck builder, Mack Trucks, has entered the Class 6 and 7 medium-duty truck market in North America with the launch of the new Mack MD Series.

The Irizar Group is to supply 200 i3LE low-entry body on chassis buses to the city of Casablanca.

The 8th edition of Busworld Turkey, organised by Busworld International and Turkish partner, HKF Trade Fairs, will be held for three days, from 5 to 7 March 2020 in the Istanbul Expo Centre.

The Irizar Group unveiled its first ever autonomous bus in Malaga last month.

Iveco SpA is now producing Eurocargo 'Glider' chassis in its Brescia factory, as part of a collaboration with UK-based electric drivetrain specialist, Electra Commercial Vehicles Ltd.

The second largest public transport operator in Germany, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH has taken delivery of 16 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses.

Thomas Built Buses is to supply the first 50 of its ‘Jouley’ electric school buses to the state of Virginia.

Electric power conversion specialist, Equipmake Ltd has opened a factory in Snetterton where it plans to design and manufacture fully-integrated electric bus chassis for an increasingly international customer base.

Energy management specialist, ABB, has opened a battery energy storage manufacturing plant in Baden designed for storing electrical energy for charging electric trucks, electric buses and trolleybuses as well as electric and hybrid locomotives.

Last year Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus announced plans to allocate BRA110m million (USD27m) to make the necessary adjustments at its Resende (RJ) plant to tailor its production lines to begin assembling electric trucks as soon as 2020.

Specialist semi-trailer manufacturer, Benalu Group, has announced development of Easy Security, the first fully connected tipping semi-trailer in the world, so the company claims.

Benalu SAS, the aluminium trailer specialist of the Benalu Group has launched an optimised version of the JumboLiner moving floor trailer, called JumboLiner 2, to increase sales even further in this market segment of France, as well as other markets.