Charging infrastructure is continually being built to support additional battery electric truck deployments. DTNA’s truck manufacturing plant in Santiago TMP, Monterrey, has been designated as a new site for the second commercial vehicle charging facility in Mexico, which will be equipped with a Detroit eFill charger, boasting a charging capacity of up to 120kW.

The 149 e-buses, which had been removed pending investigation of a fire, are being after a detailed report was sent to RATP in Paris explaining the main cause of the fire and the actions being taken to rectify the problem. The Bollore Group attributed the fire to “the assembly of an electronic component which caused a short-circuit between the cells making up the battery packs.“

The first batch of e-Jest vehicles has now been delivered, serving as the first right-hand drive vehicles in the history of the brand.

The 12.1 metre (40 foot) Mega Beast boasts an impressive 482 km (300 miles) range thanks to a 387 kWh battery pack, which the company claims is the most powerful battery pack in the U.S. electric school bus market.

Four Type A Nano Beast school buses have been delivered to Cabell County, Clay County, Kanawha County and Monongalia County school districts in West Virginia.

Pinnacle Mobility, which sells vehicles under the brand name, EKA Mobility, is an electric bus as well as a light and medium-duty electric truck builder.

Hyundai Motor Company has signed a distribution agreement for its Elec City battery-powered buses with an agency in Indonesia.

Gillig has apparently bought the former Lightning eMotors site in Loveland, Colorado, and it will retain some of the company's engineers in order to turn it into a dedicated electric powertrain technology hub. 

They will join a fleet of 84 electric buses already delivered or on order from Wrightbus to Arriva London last year.

Another city in Brazil, this time a city with hot temperatures of up to 41 deg. C, Cuiabá of Mato Grosso State, has begun testing China’s Higer electric 12m low floor bus, the Azure A12BR e-bus.

Isuzu to invest THB32bn (USD900m) in its Thai operations over the next five years as it looks to step up its transition to zero-emission vehicles.

LaFontaine Automotive Group will set up and manage two dealerships for Bollinger Motors in the state of Michigan: one in Lansing and the other in Farmington Hills.