LG will supply Proterra with a new kind of battery cell designed for electrified commercial vehicles through to 2028.

The terms and conditions of Meritor's minority investment in the electrification retrofit company have not been disclosed.

Hino 700 series trucks built for the Australian market will be installed with Allison 3000 and 4000 automatic transmissions as standard.

Hyzon Motors has appointed investment and business development veteran, John Edgley, as managing director of its Australia and New Zealand operations, effective from 23 July.

Electric van, bus and micro-factory developer, Arrival, has appointed Hitachi Europe to help deliver complete fleet bus and infrastructure solutions to the European bus industry.

Alexander Dennis has announced it has reached an agreement with Nexport to assemble bodies from the Alexander Dennis Enviro family, which will be mounted on electric bus chassis from BYD for the local Australian market.

Ford Motor Company of Detroit, Michigan, USA and SK Innovation Inc, of Seoul, South Korea, part of SK Energy, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to create a joint venture company – to be called BlueOvalSK – to manufacture battery cells in the USA.

Mitsubishi Fuso has launched a new model version of its heavy-duty Super Great truck, equipped for the first time with Emergency Stop Assist, which detects anomalies in steering wheel activity.

The market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw in East Asia’s seven main markets (excluding China) expanded by 4.2% to 366,367 units in the first quarter of 2021 after declining by almost 19% to 351,556 units in the same period of last year.

The Japanese market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw expanded by just 1.4% year-on-year to 118,511 units in the first quarter of 2021 from 116,830 units in the same period of last year.

The Philippine market for commercial vehicles over 2 tons gvw expanded by over 6% to an estimated 24,901 units in the first quarter of 2021 from 23,374 units in the same period of last year.

The Malaysian commercial vehicle market over 2 tons gvw rebounded strongly in the first quarter of 2021, by over 56% to 15,165 units after declining by 22% to 9,697 units in the same period of last year.