The new Bridgestone Ecopia Steer Enliten and Ecopia Drive Enliten tyres are available from January 2024 in size 315/70 R22.5. Four additional sizes will be added next year and one further size in 2025. Bridgestone will add the Ecopia Enliten trailer tyre in Q4 2024.

The acquisition, through its US subsidiary Komatsu America Corporation, will allow the Japanese company to develop and produce a full range of battery-powered vehicles and machinery in-house, starting with mining vehicles for the North and South American markets.

As part of the GRIDSERVE-led ‘Electric Freightway’ project, Hitachi has been contracted to build 140 electric heavy-duty vehicle charging stations across 15 motorway charging sites and ten commercial depot charging locations across the UK. Furthermore, Hitachi will collect and manage data gathered from charging sessions to optimise charging, route planning and the battery health of HGVs over the next five years.

The company has won a contract from Colas Rail Italiato to install its Grid-eMotion charging infrastructure in Genoa to aid the Val Bisagno Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) line in Northern Italy. This contract will support the local Genoa City Council’s plan to decarbonise its public transport network by helping bring 34 electric buses online.

President Transnet Corporation, a leading Taiwanese logistics company, is the first company in the country to commit to the eCanter in advance of its official launch in the country early next year. The company operates one of the largest truck fleets in the country which includes close to 1,700 Fuso units.

The first Quester was launched in 2013 in Thailand and the model is now available in 46 countries across four continents.

The investment will target Coherent’s silicon carbide unit, which will be separated into an independent subsidiary named Silicon Carbide LLC. This investment gives Denso a 12.5% non-controlling equity stake in Silicon Carbide LLC and most importantly secures access to and supply of SiC wafers for its electric components.

The new eCanter order by Yamato is for standard cab, S-battery models with three body variants – dry, refrigerated and frozen cargos.

The company received an order for 900 new-generation eCanters from the Japanese leasing company, Yamato Transport. This marks the largest single order of the Next-Gen FUSO eCanter so far.

KTB of launches Fuso's latest eCanter truck model in Indonesia.

With production set for 2027, the plant will be responsible for producing air handling units for air conditioners as well as full air conditioning systems.

Japan’s commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw continued to recover in the second quarter of 2023, with sales rising by 11%compared with the same period a year earlier.