Stuttgart-based Daimler AG’s decision to split its Daimler Mobility AG into two independent financial services companies for the car and van business and the truck and bus business has led to changes on the Board of Management.

Quantron AG, the Augsburg-based electric truck manufacturer is now marketing the all-electric, Q-ELION, a compact lightweight commercial vehicle with a width of 1.6m and a gross weight of 3.5t.

ZF Group has launched an innovative new brake actuator platform. Using a platform approach for the first time, ZF’s fourth-generation brake actuator technology is said to offer significant safety and cost efficiency benefits for Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs).

Jost-Werke AG of Neu-Isenburg, Germany, a manufacturer and supplier of coupling components for trucks and trailers has been bought by investment fund management company, sold Edbro Ltd of Bolton, UK to Enact and its fund manager, Endless LLP of Leeds, UK for an undisclosed sum.

ZF Group of Friedrichshafen has launched a new Energy Management System (EMS) software designed to control the entire flow of energy in the electrified commercial vehicle.

Rigorous test track and test rig trials of Daimler Trucks’ first new enhanced hydrogen fuel cell-powered tractor unit prototype, the Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck began in late April, the Stuttgart-based company has announced.

As previously announced (T&BB March 2021), Volvo Group of Gothenburg, Sweden and Daimler Truck AG of Stuttgart, Germany have now created a new joint venture company designed to accelerate the use of hydrogen-based fuel cells for long-haul trucks and beyond.

FEV Europe GmbH, the Aachen-based automotive engineering specialist, Beijing LiangDao Intelligent Automotive Technology Co Ltd of Beijing, China with operations in Berlin and Munich, Germany, and Ibeo Automotive Systems GmbH of Hamburg, Germany, both LiDAR specialists, are to co-operate and bundle competencies, providing OEM customers worldwide with access to a full-range of solutions for Level 3 and 4 automated driving (AD) and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS).

Kögel Trailer GmbH of Bessenbach has announced all trailers from June onwards will be equipped with Kögel Telematics as standard.

CV builder, MAN Truck & Bus SE of Munich and Sono Motors GmbH, a Munich-based start-up (2016), have signed a Letter of Intent agreeing to investigate technical and economic feasibility of integrating Sono Solar Technology into MAN’s eTGE electric transporter.

Mercedes-Benz Trucks AG of Stuttgart, Germany and Royal Dutch Shell NV of The Hague, Netherlands and London, UK, are undertaking practical testing of a fully digitised fuel payment system at service stations in Stuttgart.

Phoenix-based battery and hydrogen fuel cell electric truck builder, Nikola Corporation, together with Iveco SpA and Open Grid Europe GmbH, an owner/operator of 12,000km of natural gas pipeline in Germany with multiple projects involving hydrogen production and infrastructure, have announced a cooperation to establish a Germany-wide, publicly accessible hydrogen network.