Following the announcement in June last year by French train, tram and now electric bus producer, Alstom, that it had started series manufacturing its 12m electric bus, Aptis, since the start of 2020 it has been delivering its innovative bus design to cities in France.

Renault Trucks SAS announced it would, in March, start series production of its D and D Wide ZE medium-duty electric trucks at its Blainville-sur-Orne plant.

Bruno Blim, president, Renault Trucks SAS, in a televised press conference last month, outlined the market performance of Renault Trucks and gave insights into how the company was investing to meet the challenges of the future.

Renault Trucks SAS invoiced 54,098 vehicles to maintain its market positions in 2019 in a commercial vehicle market consisting of a very dynamic first half (up 15%) and a less buoyant second half (down 18%), according to Bruno Blim, president of Renault Trucks in a televised interview last month.

Renault Trucks SAS has signed a contract to supply 20, D Wide Z.E 26-tonne trucks to the Carlsberg Group’s Swiss subsidiary, the Feldschlösschen Brewery in Rheinfelden.

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.