Marcopolo remains a traditional bus and coach body builder - this is the first time it has developed its own chassis and bus body together.

VWCO works closely with sister organisation MAN to expand export sales.

December 2022 saw Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda (VWCO) of Resende, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil begin testing its largest electric truck model to date, the e-Delivery 17.

South Korea is one of the more progressive countries to try and adopt AI and autonomous driving technology om public transport.

With 1,682 electric buses on order, SP Trans says more orders are expected as some transport operating companies have not yet submitted their new purchase requests.

Seres Brasil Ltda* is a new company in Itupeva, State of São Paulo, to sell electric vans and trucks in Brazil built and supplied by Chinese vehicle builder, DFSK Motor of Chongqing.

The truck is operating in the new districts of Nordhavn, Sydhavn and Amager and reportedly finishes with 40% of its battery capacity still left unused at the end of a typical day.

Hyundai is the first manufacturer to series build HFC trucks with vehicles currently used for commercial operations in Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand.

Arrow Mobility presented its first e-Van / e-Truck model for the first time at Fenatran 2022 in November.

Volta Trucks stated that it is starting the year strongly with customer production orders filling the first 300 manufacturing slots of the battery-electric Volta Zero.

The order is for two low-entry models from the Citea range of battery-electric city buses - 60 units of the LE-122 and 133 units of the LE-135 - which will serve in Zaanstreek-Waterland.

Already producing heavy and medium duty trucks, XCMG is now offering product for the large light-duty sector.