Borgwarner names senior executives, Brady Ericson and Chris Gropp to lead new entity.

After Motiv Power Systems retrofitted five vans with an electric driveline in 2021, Purolator has ordered an additional 55 step vans, powered by electric drive systems assembled by Motiv Power Systems and fitted on Ford chassis.

Palmgren was most recently Head of Industrial Operations Production for the Traton Group.

The brand organises a disparate set of different business operations which relate to transport and industry decarbonisation, including: fuel cell and battery manufacturing; electric powertrain products; and electrolysers for producing green hydrogen.

The company announced the appointment of Barbaros Oktay to the new role of Head of Bus, replacing Rudi Kuchta in the leadership role of MAN’s bus division.

The American retrofit firm raised over USD20m in the first tranche of a funding round led by Texas-based Reynolds Capital, the investment arm of dealership software firm The Reynolds and Reynolds Company.

Paletar announced she has removed the position of CEO and reshuffled the management following her acquisition of all the company shares.

Hofmann, who has previously worked for Volkswagen, will lead the development of Volta Trucks’ Digital Platform.

Jane Beaman has been appointed to Vice President and General Manager of the Pickup and Global Bus Business, Andreas Lippert to Vice President of New Power Engineering and José Samperio to Vice President and General Manager of North America On-Highway.

Reinhardt previously served as President and CEO for Voith Turbo.

Montagna speaks Portuguese, English, Russian and Spanish and has almost 10 years of experience in Brazil.

AVL announced the appointment of Matthias Dank as a board member and Executive Vice President of the Instrumentation and Test Systems Division; Dank joins from McLaren where he occupied the role of Director of Motorsport.