The front of the vehicle has been redesigned, featuring a new “Sky View” windscreen that eliminates the cab header panel and replaces it with glass.

Last year, Britain was the largest market for electric buses in Europe, a position that it owes in large part to a small company in the Yorkshire town of Castleford. In 2013, Pelican was appointed as the official UK and Ireland importer for Chinese manufacturer Yutong and began selling its buses and coaches; in 2020, the first battery electric Yutong vehicles were deployed in Britain. In the last decade, 2,000 Yutong vehicles were sold through Pelican, of which over 800 are fully electric. For those familiar with Pelican solely as an importer of buses and coaches, the company’s announcement that it would introduce a medium-duty truck may have come as a surprise. In fact, as I learned on a recent trip to the company’s premises in the north of England, the decision to enter the electric truck market represents a return to Pelican’s roots as the oldest family-owned truck dealership still in operation in Britain.

The 270 ‘Urbino 18 electric’ artics were ordered by Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, the state-owned company which manages public transportation in the German capital.

She will replace Michael Hellman, who is leaving the company, in the role at Düsseldorf.

Mercedes will deliver nearly 5,000 panel vans for parcel delivery over the coming months, of which roughly three-quarters will be large-size ‘eSprinter’ models.

The manufacturer has signed a contract with South Australia’s Department for Infrastructure and Transport, which will put them to use in the city of Adelaide.

The company commemorated the establishment of its heavy truck factory – now also its headquarters – in 1955, since which date it has built more than 1.25 million trucks and 2 million cabs.

The contract stipulates a firm order for two hundred buses, to be delivered beginning in 2026, plus options to acquire up to 550 more.

The first trucks are scheduled to roll off the production line at the former MAN plant in Austria by the end of the year.

MAN said it will begin handing over the first batch of trucks at the end of the third quarter of this year; these will be deployed at various locations across Europe.

Harris said the appointment of Aquila is part of its “ambitious growth plan” in the British market, where it plans to expand its coverage and customer support across every region.

PEI announced that it has worked with Spanish bus manufacturer Castrosua to develop an articulated version of the ‘Nelec’ electric bus range which is mounted on a chassis supplied by China’s BYD.