Wrightbus will deliver 80 battery-electric and 20 fuel-cell electric double deckers to Northern Ireland. The company has also received an order for 20 fuel-cell electric single deckers for Southeast England.

The Hydrogen Heavy Duty Vehicle Industry Group, including Hyundai, Toyota, and Nikola, has agreed to push ahead with a common global standard for hydrogen refuelling technologies to help “bring hydrogen closer to wide scale adoption”. 

The simulation will create a "digital twin" or virtual counterpart which will work in parallel with the actual manufacturing process, allowing the company to identify and resolve potential problems in the real production line.

Meritor will support PACCAR in its federal-funded research project by providing its 'Blue Horizon ePowertrain' technology.

The U.S. government passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, committing an additional USD39bn to decarbonising public transit and USD7.5bn to building charging infrastructure.

Dutch bus builder Ebusco Holding N.V. based in Deurne, The Netherlands, has announced that its 3.0 model has become the first composite bus to achieve EU Vehicle Type Approval.

A global memorandum of understanding was signed by fifteen governments at COP26, agreeing, among other commitments, to an interim goal of 30% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero-emission by 2030.

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.

BYD Inc has received orders for 100 units of its 12m eBus from Israel, and a further 25 units from Spain. The purchase forms a component of the city of Barcelona's wider sustainability strategy.

The 'First Movers Coalition' is a government-supported initiative to create market demand for low-carbon medium- and heavy-duty trucks through purchase commitments.

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

State-owned Convergence Energy Services Ltd (CESL)1 November announced it was floating the ‘Grand Challenge’. The Grand Challenge invites state transport undertakings (STUs) for nine cities to express their desire / plans for investing in for electric buses and access the FAME-II2 subsidy,(under NEMMP3) which provides funding to the equivalent value of some 3,472 buses.