The 'NextETRUCK' project, co-funded by Horizon Europe, will deploy medium-duty electric trucks in pilots in three European cities in Spain and the Netherlands.

LIGHTS, which stands for ‘Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions’, brought public and private companies, authorities, and institutions together to draw up and test plans for deploying battery-electric trucks at scale in the state of California.

Meritor announced that in May this year it opened a new purpose-built test chamber for heavy-duty electric powertrains and drivetrain development at its brake manufacturing and global disc brake research facility in Cwmbran, UK.

TEVX Higer is the abbreviated name of a joint venture company between Chinese bus builder, Higer Bus and local Brazilian assembler, TEVX Motors Ltd to make electric city buses in Brazil.

The joint venture firm released details of its ‘Hymotive’ global strategy, involving the ramp up of production and research at its first Gigafactory in Saint-Fons, currently under construction.

Volvo Group North America, with various partners, are participating in a state-funded project to develop a publicly-accessible charging network for medium- and heavy-duty electric vehicles which will cover a major haulage route in the Central Valley of California.

The Canadian company will start testing its fuel-cell electric demonstrator vehicles - built on MAN eTGE platforms - at the end of July, ahead of first customer deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2022 and pilots shortly thereafter.

The companies will partner with the United Nations World Food Programme to build a transport training centre in Accra, dedicated to courses in road transport, fleet management, and temperature-controlled logistics.

The Finnish company's technology is being piloted in a six-month project which will test its performance in the demanding weather conditions of the far north of Norway.

Faurecia to supply high-capacity carbon fibre hydrogen storage systems for Zero Emission Valley project in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France

Air Liquide and Siemens Energy AG is to form a joint venture in Berlin for series production of industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe to aid acceleration of the hydrogen economy.

The German manufacturer tested a prototype city bus fitted with an autonomous driving system which allows the vehicle to independently manoeuvre itself into place at a designated stop.