The Los Angeles Department of Transportation (LADOT) has been awarded a USD6 million grant by the California Energy Commission to install one of the largest EV fleet charging systems in the country.

Recipients of the federal research funding include PACCAR, Volvo Group North America, Daimler Trucks North America, Ford, and General Motors.

Public transport service provider, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport Undertaking (BEST)1 of Mumbai, has released a tender for some 1900 new electric buses.

The city of Sydney will receive funding from the federal government to facilitate the deployment of 40 electric vehicles across the city.

Borgwarner has announced it is the recipient of a USD225,000 grant to support a USD11.2 million investment at the firms’ facility in Cadillac, Michigan.

The money will be invested in a joint project with Advanced Electric Machines to develop hydrogen-based range extenders for medium- to heavy-duty commercial electric vehicles.

VWCO has won a new federal tender for the Caminho da Escola Program to provide buses to schools across the country, involving 2,500 units featuring the Volksbus 15,190 ODR - ORE3 chassis.

Power systems manufacturer, Cummins Inc, based in Columbus, Indiana, has announced it is to receive substantial government funding for its hydrogen programmes.

The US Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced the availability of up to USD2.2bn in competitive grant funding for transit systems able to demonstrate additional pandemic-associated needs.

The e-truck company has been awarded USD2m for research into integrated autonomous fuelling systems designed to speed up refuelling of heavy-duty hydrogen vehicles.

The government will provide GBP23m to incentivise uptake of hydrogen technologies as it predicts that demand for hydrogen in the heavy commercial vehicle sector could total 6TWh by 2030.

The money will be awarded to fund the purhcase of fully- and hybrid-electric vehicles and the installation of requisite charging/fuelling infrastructure.