Daimler Truck AG, based in Stuttgart, Germany, has announced the appointment of two positions within its finance division. Claus Bässler will take on the overall management of the Treasury and Tax unit of the company, with Christian Herrmann appointed to Head of Investor Relations / M&A and Participation Management.

Nikola Corporation of Phoenix, USA, and Iveco SpA, based in Turin, Italy (a subsidiary of CNH Industrial), have inaugurated a new 200 sq km manufacturing facility in the city of Ulm, Germany.

UFI Filters will supply Daimler Truck with heat exchangers - to be produced in Poland - which the two companies developed in collaboration.

The S.KOe, which is based on the S.KO line of box body semi-trailers, is being piloted by STI Freight Management in Duisberg, Germany.

Eberspächer Group of Esslingen, Germany, has introduced to market its third generation Airtronic heater system for trucks, buses, ambulances and off-road vehicles.

Automotive components company, Eberspächer Group of Esslingen, Germany, has announced its Emission Valve Generation 2 (EVG2) to help meet future nitrogen oxide standards.

The Prisma XII+ is a 120-kW fuel cell system designed for heavy-duty applications and is already in use in China.

Production of the MSG 90.6 line of driver seats, which will be fitted in the Crossway range of Iveco buses built at Otokar's Sakarya-based HQ, began in August at Grammer's facility in Bursa, Turkey.

Bus and truck retrofitting and solutions firm e-troFit, based in Denkendorf, has announced a rebrand to pepper motion. The name change is intended to more accurately reflect the company’s expansion of its product and solution portfolio which is open to other new technologies beyond electrification.

Articulated systems specialist, Hübner Group of Kassel, Germany, has launched the SensIQ product line, aimed at increasing the safety of automated bus doors.

Quantron aims to release fuel-electric trucks powered by Ballard's FCmove power modules in Germany in the second half of 2022.

Perschke has previously worked at Automobili Pininfarina, Audi, and Volkswagen.