Hofmann joins the bus manufacturer from the London Electric Vehicle Company, taking over from Buta Atwal.

Schmidt will take over from the incumbent CEO and company founder on 1 October, and will be responsible for bringing Torc Robotics’ autonomous driving technology to series production.

DAF UK has appointed new sales directors, including Nigel Beckett as UK Parts Sales & Marketing Director, and a new EV Sales and Services team.

Lohscheller is now promoted to President and CEO of the corporation, roles which Mark Russell will be giving up when he retires at the end of the year.

Munhoz will report to Mats Gunnarsson, executive vice president of global commercial operations, who is based at the headquarters in Sweden.

Onofrio Defina, COO of EMEA and Stefano Gava, COO Americas will swap roles in order to encourage “cross fertilisation” of expertise and ideas.

The exhaust and thermal management specialist has appointed board members responsible for finance, strategy, and division management, expanding the board from three to seven personnel.

Gramse, who has worked for MAN since 2020, will be the board member responsible for procurement.

Dr Srinath Rengarajan has been appointed as Senior Manager of Corporate Product & Strategy.

Rushforth will be responsible for scaling up the fuel-cell electric vehicle designer's business operations in Europe.

The joint venture between Traton, Daimler Truck and Volvo has received the relevant regulatory approvals and will begin operations this year, led by Anja van Niersen.

At the end of 2022, Dr Holger Klein will replace Wolf-Henning Scheider as CEO and Dr Peter Laier will replace Wilhelm Rehm as head of Commercial Vehicle Solutions.