French automotive components manufacturer, Faurecia SA, has won a contract to supply hydrogen storage systems for trucks built by Hyundai Motor Company of Seoul.

Albi-based SAFRA, a long established renovator of buses, trams, metro and funicular vehicles and more recently, a specialist bus builder of high quality innovative hydrogen electric, battery electric and hybrid 9-12m city buses, has announced it is increasing production on the back of an increasing order book.

Vision Systems North America Inc has been granted a five-year exemption by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to allow the use of its Smart-Vision high-definition camera monitoring system, which negates the requirement for driving mirrors on commercial vehicles.

Specialist semi-trailer manufacturer, Benalu Group, has announced development of Easy Security, the first fully connected tipping semi-trailer in the world, so the company claims.

Benalu SAS, the aluminium trailer specialist of the Benalu Group has launched an optimised version of the JumboLiner moving floor trailer, called JumboLiner 2, to increase sales even further in this market segment of France, as well as other markets.

Bennes-Marrel at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November introduced Blacktrack, a new and specially designed steel tipping 3-axle semi-trailer for transporting hot asphalt.

Bennes-Marrel and its parent company, Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November introduced a new steel / aluminium hybrid tipper specially designed and optimized for the transport of scrap metal called, Steeltrack.

The Benalu Group at Solutrans 2019 in Lyon held last November announced a group turnover of EUR170m and that it now employs more than 1,000 people in France and Poland.

Jean-Philippe Ferjoz, former commercial director at Renault Trucks has been appointed managing director at Krone France SAS to replace Philippe Lamberet, who was retired.

Transport group, Keolis, having already established full electric bus rapid transport systems in several French cities, has inaugurated the first 100% hydrogen fuelled BRT system using eight 18m fuel cell powered articulated vehicles from Van Hool in the city of Pau.

Following the successful launch of its camera monitoring system called Smart-Vision in markets across Europe, Vision Systems, is to exhibit its mirrorless solution at the UMA Motorcoach Expo this month.

‘Road’ was the name of a collaborative project with refrigerated trailer specialist, Jean CHEREAU SAS, four industrial partners and some institutional partners initiated to develop the reefer semi-trailer of the future: It was a three year project representing an investment of EUR5.5m that this has resulted in a four new products or areas of improvement for the Avranches-based company.