Between 2023 and 2024, the Swiss-French manufacturer of building materials will receive an initial batch of 130 Volvo ‘FH’ and ‘FM’ battery electric trucks.

Duvenbeck will receive its first vehicles from MAN in 2024 and will take further deliveries through 2026, which will make it one of the first customers to acquire the new truck model.

Medium and heavy rigid truck sales in India remain the life blood of the road transport sector - sales improve 5.1% during the final quarter of FY2022-23.

The first model, the BE 5528+ truck was introduced in November 2022, marking the beginning of Blue Energy Motor's entry into the LNG-fuelled truck industry.

The truck on show - based on the Freightliner Cascadia - had an 80-kg hydrogen storage capacity, but with 100 kg Quantron claims the vehicle range could reach between 750 and 850 miles.

The ‘AxTrax 2’ is a follow-up to ZF’s existing line of integrated electric portal axles for buses, delivering 210 kW of continuous power and 26,000 Nm peak output torque.

Both companies will be making Class 8 electric trucks using fuel cell drive systems developed by Japanese firm Toyota, with Kenworth aiming to begin customer deliveries next year.

The new heavy-duty truck range is the first new product line to be developed jointly since Isuzu completed its USD2.2bn acquisition of UD Trucks from Volvo Trucks in April 2021.

The VW Meteor, which replaced the TGX MAN truck model, was introduced to Brazil in September 2020.

The Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative (JETSI), first launched in 2021, plans to put over a hundred electric trucks on the road and 35 chargers at two sites in order to trial them in real operations at scale. 

The Kässbohrer-bodied truck, with a combination weight reaching up to 42 tons when fully laden with eight cars, is powered by a 230-kWh battery.

Following validation tests, Scania and Northvolt confirmed that the cells have the capacity to propel trucks up to 1.5 million kilometres over their lifetime.