The group - including the DAF, Kenworth, and Peterbilt truck brands - achieved total revenues of USD33,663.8m in 2024.

The millionth truck was a diesel ‘Renault Trucks T’, a heavy-duty model which will be used by Portuguese haulier TJA.

The new truck – apparently a rebadged variant of the model year 2025 ‘VNL’ – features improvements focused on driver comfort, vehicle safety, and aerodynamics.

The Peterbilt ‘Model 579’ and Kenworth ‘T680’ will now be offered with the latest Bendix ‘Fusion’ package, which uses a forward-facing camera to enable collision mitigation systems such as “pedestrian automatic emergency braking”.

The new VNR will be installed with the ‘D13’ variable geometry turbo engine as standard.

The truck, an ‘E-Tech C’, is a five-axle model which can carry up to ten cubic metres of concrete in a Stetter-branded mixer developed by Schwing Group of Germany.

Sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t GVW and above) in India declined to 60,215 units in Q3 (63,469).

The truck developed by Scania is a 230-kW series hybrid running primarily on battery-electric power, with a 120-kW petrol-powered generator to provide backup energy.

The post-pandemic growth of the British truck market ended in 2024, with registrations of heavy goods vehicles (i.e., trucks >6t) falling by 2.7% compared with the year before, according to statistics published by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT).

In early 2023, a new name was introduced to the commercial vehicle industry: “Accelera by Cummins”. It was the result of eight separate acquisitions made by parent company Cummins Inc over a period of as many years, all of them connected, albeit in different ways, to zero-emission technology. Naturally, Cummins wished to differentiate its new purchases from its ongoing engine business, and it is not the only legacy manufacturer to attempt a rebrand for its electric vehicle products (a la General Motors’ “Brightdrop” and Shyft Group’s “Blue Arc”). But it also aims to weld its acquisitions together into a single, cohesive unit capable of delivering “end-to-end electric solutions”. Molly Hale – who is the marketing communications manager for Accelera – explained: “There was this belief that we needed to have an identity all our own, to go to the market and explain the depth of the commitment and the depth of the investments in these technologies.”

These 85 low- and zero-emission trucks make up almost 10% of the retailer’s total fleet.

Renault Trucks announced that, as it fulfilled this order, it passed a milestone of 2,000 electric trucks produced at its factory in Blainville-sur-Orne.