Alexander Dennis (ADL) has announced it is to offer its own in-house integrated battery electric city buses in single and double deck form from late 2023. The first ten new integral battery electric Enviro500EV double decks are to be delivered to KMB in Hong Kong.

VW latest school bus order for 2,300 vehicles, all with Marcopolo bodies, takes numbers sold under the Caminho da Escola program in the last 15 years to over 27,000.

Brazil’s urban bus transport passenger numbers rose by 37% in 2021 over 2020, but numbers still lower by 10.8 million per day compared with ridership in 2019.

PMI Electro Mobility Solutions  is constructing a purpose-built facility to manufacture electric commercial vehicles (CVs) on a 35-acre facility in the Maharashtra Industrial site in Chakan, Pune, West India.

The 'P7-B', built on REE Automotive's drive-by-wire modular electric platform at MIRA Technology Park, is targeted at the growing mid- and last-mile delivery market.

Iveco Bus has decided to use Hyundai’s latest hydrogen fuel cell engine for its HFC zero emission buses.

E-bus builder, PMI Electro Mobility Solutions Pvt Ltd (PMI Electro) of Haryana, a Sino-Indian joint venture has added another electric bus order for 100 units with the Rajkot Municipal Corporation in Gujarat, India - this a full service order i.e. to supply, maintain and operate the 100 electric buses for 10 years.

Renault Trucks UK delivered an 18-tonne E-Tech D Wide fitted with a refrigerated body which was built by Solomon Commercials and which is cooled by a Carrier unit.

The MoU covers an initial period of three years, during which time Switch will supply transportation service provider Chalo with variants of the new ‘EiV12’, designed specifically for the Indian market.

LG Energy Solution Ltd (LGES) Seoul, South Korea, has announced it is to supply traction (EV) batteries to Isuzu Motors Ltd of Shinagawa, Japan in a multi-year deal worth an estimated KRW1trn (USD765m).

German CV electrification conversion start-up, Clean Logistics SE in Hamburg has agreed terms to buy Dutch heavy-duty multi-axle truck conversion specialist and modifier, GINAF Trucks Netherlands B.V. from the management team at GINAF.

Facchini S.A. of Votuporanga,Brazil has introduced two new bulk goods semi-trailer models; a bulk tipper with a fourth axle and a ‘sliding’ suspension system called Bulk Trailer, and the second, also with a fourth axle, which has two ‘cargo boxes’ for split loads.