The Swedish EV manufacturer has revealed the location of its first customer operations centre in Paris, France which will deliver the company’s Truck-as-a-Service business model following customer pilots of the Volta Zero truck in mid-2022.

The French manufacturer has announced that it is preparing for the launch of a new hydrogen fuel-cell electric bus, called ‘Hycity’, which will be officially presented at European Mobility Expo in Paris on 7 June.

Finance will be made available to customers of Nikola's Class 8 electric trucks as well as current and future Nikola dealerships.

Bookings for the world's largest bus and coach show, Busworld Europe, in October 2023, start today - May 6, 2022.

The company has established the Torc Autonomous Advisory Council (TAAC) with the aim of allowing logistics firms to guide and advise Torc Robotics as it develops its first commercialised autonomous truck.

The corporate venture capital fund of Scania has made an investment in logistics software company Parcelly Ltd for an undisclosed sum.

VWCO is in the process of entering the Philippine commercial vehicle market this year through the local MAN truck distributor MAN Automotive Concessionaires Corporation of Quezon City, the Philippines. 

Colombia is to be the first export country in South America to import the all-electric version of VW’s Delivery truck, the e-Delivery, according to VWCO, which has been working with the government to enter the Colombian marketplace with its electric truck range.

Carrier Transicold SAS, based in Rueil-Malmaison, France, has opened a new, larger service centre in Germany. The firm has moved to a new location in Leipzig, nearer to the airport.

Mercedes-Benz Mobility has appointed Peter Zieringer to the newly-created role of Chief Customer Officer following a restructure to centralise the management of global sales.

Bernard Krone GmbH & Co, based in Werlte, Germany, has entered a strategic partnership with service provider Efficient-Consumer-Response ECR-Solutions Servicegesellschaft mbH (ECR) of Dortmund. The aim of the agreement is to work together to further develop and expand Krone’s fleet management service packages for fleet operators.

The two companies plan to sell around 5,000 retrofitted trucks and buses in France by 2030, supported by over EUR1.5m raised earlier in the year by REV Mobilities.