New plants are expected to enhance Bosch’s components position in the country’s rapidly expanding new energy vehicle (NEV) supply chain.

Expected to begin operation in 2026, the 753,000 square foot Dallas-Fort-Worth-Metroplex has the capacity to store 800,000 tyres.

Dutch logistics firm Simon Loos has placed an order for 75 Mercedes Benz eActros 600 long-haul battery-electric trucks. Deliveries are scheduled for Q1 2025.

The German company said it has taken the decision due to “intense cost and price pressures” from growing Asian competition.

Klingenberg will assume his new position on 1 January 2025 and will be tasked with executing the transition to a group R&D organisation at Traton.

The order consists of fifty ‘S.BO Express’ semi-trailers with dry freight bodies and twenty-five dollies which connect a pair of trailers to create an extra-long truck-trailer combination (up to a maximum length of 31.5 metres).

Initially, the facility will have a production capacity of 50,000 packs a year; MAN is hoping to expand this to 100,000 by 2030.

Mahle is contracted to supply a “hydrogen power cell unit” and other components to MAN for its ‘hTGX’ truck, which was announced earlier this year.

At last year’s Busworld, Voith Turbo celebrated the 70th anniversary of its ‘DIWA’ line of automatic transmissions for urban and suburban buses. The German manufacturer had just brought out the latest addition to the DIWA range, the ‘DIWA NXT’. This reimagining of the city bus transmission, incorporating a mild hybrid system (optional), appeared on the scene when it still seemed that fully electric was the only way to go. Markus Bischoff – who is responsible for the DIWA product line – believes the company made a “brave decision” in supporting the development of the mild-hybrid transmission; today, he feels vindicated by the resurgence of interest in hybrids. “The main request we get from our customers,” Bischoff told Truck & Bus Builder, “is affordability.”

The German manufacturer says the order for 27 battery electric buses from Ledermair is the largest order for electric buses the company has received thus far from a private operator in Austria.

Customers of MAN and Scania who make use of MAN ‘Charge&Go’ or Scania ‘Charging Access’ will now be able to use Hubject’s ‘Intercharge’ network of charging points.

The companies are set to develop a fully electrified refrigerated trailer that aims to reduce emissions in the cold chain logistics industry.