South Korean automaker agrees collaboration with local defense contractor.

It is less than a year since German automotive components giant Schaeffler merged with Vitesco Technologies Group to form a single “motion technology company”. Retaining the Schaeffler name, the new company is now in the process of combining the two product lines of Schaeffler and Vitesco together under a single brand. At the company’s stand at the Advanced Clean Transportation Expo – held between 28 April and 1 May in Anaheim, California – the two companies’ portfolios were nearly indistinguishable. It marked the first time that the newly-merged company presented itself as a supplier of comprehensive system solutions to the North American commercial vehicle market.

This accreditation means the bus can operate “on a planned route without a driver in the cab,” significantly expanding Karsan’s autonomous e-bus operations beyond existing deployments in Italy,  Switzerland and Finland.

Anirudh Bhuwalka, CEO of Blue Energy Motors, says the facility will produce zero-emission electric trucks using AI and machine learning technologies.

Mullen announced a definitive agreement to acquire an additional 21% stake in Bollinger, increasing shareholder equity by approximately USD3.5m.

The project - valued at approximately USD660mn (INR 5,500 crore) - includes full-scale electric and civil infrastructure development under a Gross Cost Contracting (GCC) model.

BZRT artic and bi-artic chassis will be shipped to bodybuilders across the globe from the Volvo plant in Curitiba, Paraná.

This adds additional capacity to Ashok Leyland’s bus manufacturing – in FY2023/24 output exceeded 17,000 FBU buses and bus chassis.

Buses to be produced locally for use on Transjakarta routes.

Urban bus designed for up to 29 passengers.

Rivian is investing nearly USD120m in the 1.2m square-foot “supplier park”, next to the site where it builds all its electric vehicles (including its ‘Electric Delivery Van’).

The milestone vehicle was a battery electric ‘eSprinter’, assembled at the ‘Mercedes-Benz Vans LLC’ plant in Charleston, South Carolina, where production of the new eSprinter range was initially launched in 2023.