The Department of Energy in the United States of America has announced availability of USD100m, over four years, regarding the SuperTruck 3 programme and additional funding for low greenhouse gas vehicles.

Paccar Inc of Bellevue, Washington, has entered a five-year supply agreement for battery power systems with Romeo Power Inc, headquartered in Los Angeles, California.

Truck manufacturers and environmentalists have joined forces to push for the deployment of 11,000 charging points for electric trucks across the EU by 2025, rising to 42,000 by 2030.

Purpose-designed 16t gvw electric truck manufacturer for distribution services, Volta Trucks, which is headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden, has announced it is exploring the possible manufacture of the Volta Zero in Spain as one of several possible sites in Europe.

Electric truck developer, Tevva Motors Ltd of Chelmsford, UK has successfully raised USD12.5m (GBP9m) in capital finance in a funding round that it states was over-subscribed.

Peterbilt Motors Company of Denton, Texas has introduced significant updates to its vocational Model 567 and 520 trucks.

Girteka Logistics, a major European logistics company based in Lithuania, has placed an order for 2,000 of the latest generation, Volvo FH trucks.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in East Asia’s seven main markets (excluding China) fell by just 2.6% to 385,943 units in the fourth quarter of 2020 after declining by close to 13% to 396,046 units in the same period of 2019, according to data compiled by www.AsiaMotorBusiness.com from numerous industry sources.

Volvo Truck Corporation has announced new Volvo FM and FMX trucks with a crew cab for up to nine people.

A new study from the Brussels-based European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association shows there are currently 6.2 million medium and heavy commercial vehicles on the EU’s roads, the average age of which is 13 years and that almost 98% of all these trucks run on diesel.

Haulage tractor sales fell by 61.2% during the first three quarters (April to December) of fiscal year 2020-21 (Q1-Q3/2020-21) to register just 5,467 units compared with 14,107 units in the same period of the previous year (2019-20).

Sales of medium and heavy rigid trucks (7.5t gvw and above) in India fell by 45.6% in the first nine months (April to December) of FY2020-21 to 72,109 units from 132,575 units in same period of the year FY2019-20.