Following its acquisition of Italian parts supplier, V. Orlandi, SAF-Holland has expanded its product range with trailer couplings and drawbar eyes for different applications.

The eSConnect is the name of a new monitoring and fleet management system or tool from bus builder, Solaris Bus & Coach SA of Bolechowo, Poland, developed especially for customers buying electric buses from Solaris.

The number of electric bus deliveries in Western Europe and Poland increased threefold in 2019 to 1,697 units from 548 units delivered in the previous year, according the Wim Chatrou of Chatrou CME Solutions.

At the request of the customer, Connexxion, electric bus builder, Ebusco NV, is to fit cameras on all 156 new, electric buses, instead of normal wing mirrors, destined for Amstelland-Meerlanden and Haarlem-Ijmond concessions later this year.

In the context of the lowest cost of ownership, Knapen Trailers BV is now offering an optional feature of a tilt-able aluminium plate to protect the roof sheet on all its other models of aluminium trailers.

Carrier Transicold has delivered the first new Vector HE 19 trailer refrigeration unit in the UK to the Dartmouth Crab Company which has been mounted on a 13.6m Gray & Adams reefer trailer.

Isuzu Motors Ltd and car giant, Honda Motor Ltd, in January signed an agreement to carry out joint research to develop fuel-cell-powered heavy-duty trucks.

The Volvo Group has agreed to sell its Japanese subsidiary, UD Trucks, prefecture to Isuzu Motors Ltd, in a deal worth a reported USD2.3bn, as the fast evolving global commercial vehicle market continues to put huge investment demands on the industry.

Renault Trucks SAS has signed a contract to supply 20, D Wide Z.E 26-tonne trucks to the Carlsberg Group’s Swiss subsidiary, the Feldschlösschen Brewery in Rheinfelden.

Irizar e-mobility is to provide nine 18m electric buses to In-de-City-Bus GmbH, in addition to nine interoperable slow charge stations for their bus garages / stations.

N.C. Nielsen, a distributor in Denmark for the Terberg Group, recently supplied a Terberg container carrier with hook lift to the municipality of Vejle.

SAIC-owned LDV is to rebrand as MAXUS from April 2020.