Eberspächer Climate Control Systems GmbH has begun forging stronger relationships with Chinese electric bus manufacturers.

VDL Bus & Coach has won a contract to supply 43 Citea Electrics to operator, Qbuzz, for deployment in Emmen, Assen and Groningen.

Volvo Bus Corporation has delivered the first 12m fully autonomous electric buses to Nanyang Technological University in Singapore where it it is to enter an R&D programme for autonomous electric buses.

January saw the start of pre-production assembly of Hino’s XL-Series Class7/8 trucks in the USA on a brand new production line installed in a new plant in Mineral Wells.

Sweden's Scania has supplied a 16-litre engine to support a new Australian trial of renewable diesel fuel. The fuel will be made from waste plastic, old vehicle tyres, agricultural and forestry waste, as well as bio-solids. The trial is aimed at achieving commercial scale production.

Transit bus builder, ElDorado National-California Inc, has received certification from the California Air Resources Board on its 40’ 2019 ENC Axess Fuel Cell bus.

DEX Heavy Duty Parts LLC, a Volvo Group subsidiary and supplier of recycled, renovated and surplus medium and heavy-duty truck parts, is expanding its operations with the opening a second facility in Oklahoma City.

Kögel Trailer GmbH, a semi-trailer manufacturer and sister company of Humbaur GmbH, recorded revenues of EUR530m in 2018, an increase of 17% on EUR450m in 2017.

Temsa Germany has expanded its vehicle parc and aftersales network in Germany with deliveries to Tholen Reisen.

Volvo Trucks North America LLC has developed an ergonomically advanced workstation within the cab as an option for its VNL 760, 740 and VNX 740 heavy-duty sleeper truck models.

As part of the management plan for its European operations and on-going restructuring of its production, the Wielton Group has announced that last year it bought from the receivers of the Italian Trailer Company, the large factory in Tocco da Casauria, run formerly under Merker trailer name.

At the end of last year Mann+Hummel’s ‘Filter Cubes’ were successfully installed in Stuttgart at a busy road junction in the district of Neckartor to reduce the level of fine dust pollution.