This figure of 14,405 for city buses with alternative drivelines was marginally higher (+6.5%) than the 13,466 units registered in 2023, which was due, DVV explained, to higher volumes of electric buses.

The commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw rebounded by 36% to 20,224 units in the fourth quarter of 2024 from depressed year-earlier sales of 14,877 units.

The Thai commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw continued to deteriorate in the fourth quarter of 2025, with sales plunging by 55% to 30,498 units from already depressed year-earlier volumes - when the market dropped by 37% to 68,295 units.

The South Korean market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw declined by 21% to 46,241 units in the fourth quarter of 2024 from 58,500 units a year earlier.

The expanded BharatBenz lineup is now with the 'TorqShift' AMT, adapted from Mercedes-Benz trucks and proven in Daimler heavy-duty vehicles.

February this year saw Volvo do Brasil Veículos Ltda of Curitiba, Brazil begin exporting trucks to Mexico.

Comgás installing natural gas refuelling stations for three major operating companies Ypê, Nelcar and Grupo SADA in the state of São Paulo.

Commercial vehicle sales in Singapore amounted to 6,287 units in the first nine months of 2024, compared with 7,434 units in the whole of 2023, according to the latest government registration data.

The total number of city buses with alternative drivelines in European Union 27 countries plus the UK, Norway (NO), Iceland (ICE) and Switzerland (EU 27+4) totalled 13,466 units  comprising 6,354 electric buses (excludes trolley buses), 4,022 hybrid-electric buses, 2,883 CNG buses and 207, hydrogen (fuel cell) buses.

Bus and coach deliveries in Europe* reversed a three year downward trend in 2023 increasing by almost 21% (*Countries EU27+UK+ICE+NO+CH).

At the annual media event in December last year, members of the UK press gathered in Oxford for the State of the Nation address from DAF Trucks UK senior management.

The Malaysian commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw continued to grow in the third quarter of 2023, albeit just slightly to 19,900 units after an 85% rebound to 19,329 units in the same period of last year.