Konvekta’s HEAT2GO latent heat storage system that first went on public display at Busworld Brussels last October is now undergoing trials in Germany.

Traton SE has offered to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock in Navistar International Corporation not already owned by Traton at a price of USD35 per share in cash; this represents a 45% premium over Navistar’s closing share price of USD24.11 on January 29, 2020 and a 19% premium over Navistar’s 90-day volume weighted average price of USD29.40.

As part of its e-mobility roadmap, MAN Truck & Bus, has begun sales of its 18 metre electric city bus, the MAN Lion’s City 18 E.

The majority of shareholders of SAF-Holland SA last month voted in favour of changing the legal status of the truck and trailer components supplier to SAF-Holland SE, which stands for Societas Europaea and with the future registered office being in Bessenbach – where the company’s main manufacturing and operational headquarters already exist.

Global truck and trailer components, The SAF-Holland SE, reported group sales in the 2019 financial year of EUR1,284.2m, a slight decrease of 1.3% from EUR1,300.6m in 2018.

Traton SE and RISE, have announced they are collaborating  on cybersecurity and artificial intelligence (AI).

Braking and motion control systems and components supplier for rail and commercial vehicles, Knorr-Bremse AG, has concluded the purchase of steering systems specialist, R.H. Sheppard Co Inc for USD149.5m.

Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA and Swiss investment holding company, PCS Holding AG, have announced an agreement has been signed (April 29, 2020) to acquire a combined 59% of the shares in Traktionssysteme Austria GmbH, a manufacturer of electric motors, generators and transmissions for rail and road vehicles based in Wiener Neudorf, Austria.

Mercedes-Benz AG is investing more than one billion Euros to establish a global battery production network for Mercedes-Benz Car operations.

Starting in the third quarter of 2020, ZF’s CeTrax electric central drive for public transport will go into volume production.

Ebusco NV says it is to deliver 13, 12m low-floor Ebusco 2.2 electric buses to Transdev Rhein-Main GmbH  in December 2020 to replace current diesel buses.

Andreas Moser (56, appointed head of ZF Commercial Vehicle Technology Division, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, on January I, 2020) last month at the parent company’s headquarters in Friedrichshafen, to a closed group of journalists laid out details of organisational changes within the CV division to address the post-Covid markets and to meet key technology trends taking place in the sector.