UD Trucks will trial a Quon truck equipped with Level-4 technologies at Kobe Steel's Kakogawa Works site in the second half of 2022.

The Hydrogen Heavy Duty Vehicle Industry Group, including Hyundai, Toyota, and Nikola, has agreed to push ahead with a common global standard for hydrogen refuelling technologies to help “bring hydrogen closer to wide scale adoption”. 

Mitsubishi Fuso has begun series production of the new Fuso Canter at the firm's plant in Tramagal, Portugal.

Daikin Europe has unveiled its first range of Daikin branded refrigerated cooling units at the Solutrans show in Lyon, France.

Refrigerated solutions firms Daikin Reefer of Osaka, Japan, and IRS International of Laverton, Australia, have announced that their European projects will operate out of one combined headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Bridgestone Tire Manufacturing Thailand Co., a subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., based in Tokyo, Japan, has added solar panels to the roof of its manufacturing facility in Chonburi.

Start-up companies can pitch and develop their ideas via the platform; approved proposals will gain market access and technical and business support from the Japanese CV manufacturer.

The new site, run by Fuso-distributor Motor Vehicle Trading Company, is located on a 24,000 square-metre plot in Naur-Madaba, close to the main highways.

Japan’s commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw expanded by just 9% to 91,928 units in the second quarter of 2021 after declining by 22% to 84,437 units a year earlier.

Woven Capital, the investment arm of Toyota Motor Company’s Tokyo, Japan-based Woven Planet Group Inc subsidiary, announced it has invested in Ridecell Inc, a specialist platform provider for IoT-driven automation for mobility and fleet businesses.

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), based in Kawasaki, Japan, said its truck plant in Tramagal, Portugal, would become  carbon neutral by 2022, well ahead of its plants in Japan which are expected to achieve this status by 2039 at the latest

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), based in Kawasaki, Japan, in July announced it has signed an agreement to use US-based Wise Systems Inc’s routing and dispatching solutions in Japan from the fourth quarter of 2021.