Bollinger’s B4 electric chassis cab now qualifies for an IRS 40,000 U.S. tax credit for commercial clean vehicles, under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022*. Deliveries of the B4 chassis cab are set for Q3 2024.

The Zemo Partnership has been formed to aid the new government in its plans to accelerate road transport decarbonisation. The Council will work closely with over 200 member organisations to develop a roadmap for net zero transport.

The grant money depends on the powertrain or fuel type of the vehicle and the number of vehicles that the applicant wants to purchase, with the maximum amount on offer to any one company capped at EUR 500,000.

The funding package, dubbed ‘Hy2Move’, is the fourth “Important Project of Common European Interest” (IPCEI) related to hydrogen which the European Commission has approved over the past two years.

The JSW Group of Mumbai has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the government of Odisha, to building an integrated Electric Vehicle (EV) and EV battery manufacturing facility in Cuttack, Odisha State.

The ‘Paccar MX-13’ with additional low-NOx aftertreatment is now being offered with Peterbilt’s Model 579, 567, and 589 trucks and with Kenworth’s T680, T880, and W990 trucks.

The truck displayed at the show was a ‘Freightliner Cascadia’ 6x2 tractor unit powered by Symbio’s 400-kW ‘StackPack’ fuel cell system - developed for the “H2 Central Valley Express” project.

Mullen is now entirely exempt from export duties and taxes by U.S. customs for any Class 1 and 3 vehicles sold abroad which are produced at the Tunica site.

The ‘Automated Vehicles Act’ (passed on 20 May) will require self-driving vehicles to achieve a safety level “as high as careful and competent drivers” before being allowed onto public roads.

A USD1.98m grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Transportation will fund a six-month project, called ‘SMART Rider’, to pilot three buses with collision mitigation systems.

The EUR3m investment into Zepp has come from an “energy transition” fund provided by the City of Rotterdam and an unnamed private investor who is “deeply embedded in the Rotterdam tech scene”.

Called ‘FFB PreFab’, the 6,450-square-metre building is an initial step towards building an even larger facility, the ‘FFB Fab’, for research into large-scale industrial methods of battery cell production.