The Austrian trailer builder’s performance in 2022 outstripped its sales in the previous year by 9% (EUR409m).

AVL announced the appointment of Matthias Dank as a board member and Executive Vice President of the Instrumentation and Test Systems Division; Dank joins from McLaren where he occupied the role of Director of Motorsport.

Testing of the Iveco Bus / Plus Inc heavy-duty truck (Iveco S-Way) installed with Plus’s level 4 autonomous driving technology (‘PlusDrive’), is set to expand from Germany into Austria, Italy and Switzerland in March 2023 in order to collect more complex road data and ultimately go into series production.

Volta Trucks stated that it is starting the year strongly with customer production orders filling the first 300 manufacturing slots of the battery-electric Volta Zero.

Compatible with vehicles utilising an electronic brake system, RADC 1.0. monitors an area of up to 3 by 10 metres.

Interior components supplier Faigle, has brought out new passenger grab strap with antibacterial properties to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

The 26-tonne vehicle successfully traversed a 48-kilometre stretch between the city of Salzburg in the northern foothills of the Alps and the lookout point of Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, becoming the very first fully-electric truck to do so.

Jebsen & Jessen Industrial Solutions will oversee the sale and service of Mellor’s Sigma and Orion-E buses in Germany and Austria.

The zero-emission division of Hexagon Group, Hexagon Purus ASA, based in Oslo, Norway, has entered into an agreement to acquire 40% of Cryoshelter GmbH’s liquid hydrogen business, based in Graz, Austria.

Vancouver, British Columbia-based First Hydrogen Corp has announced that its green hydrogen van will begin demonstrator testing in June 2022. First Hydrogen has partnered with Ballard Power Systems Inc of Vancouver, Canada, and the UK subsidiary of AVL List GmbH, AVL Powertrain UK Ltd of Hartlebury, to provide the drive components for the vehicle. The two demonstrator vans have been sourced from MAN SE, based in Munich, Germany, and are currently at AVL’s UK headquarters.

HELLA GmbH & Co, based in Lippstadt, Germany, is investing in the expansion of its manufacturing site in Großpetersdorf, Austria. The size of the investment has not been disclosed, but it is understood to amount to several million euros.

Solaris has announced a new framework agreement with Österreichische Postbus AG of Vienna, providing options to deliver up to 106 battery and fuel-cell electric buses between now and 2025.