Iveco SPA and FPT Industrial with operational headquarters in Turin, the CV and powertrain brands of CNH Industrial N.V., and HFC/electric highway truck start-up, Nikola Motor Company, which formed a joint venture in 2019, have announced they are to manufacture the Nikola TRE electric tractor at Iveco's chassis engineering hub in Ulm.

VDL Bus & Coach has confirmed an order for 53 Citea Electric buses from public transport company, KVB Cologne.

Truck and bus chassis and driveline part manufacturer, PE Automotive GmbH & Co KG, has acquired parts company, Monark Automotive GmbH together with the Monark brand for an undisclosed sum.

Global truck builder, Daimler Truck, has announced its next step forward in electrifying its truck range is to be the launch of the Mercedes-Benz eEconic.

Robert Bosch GmbH has increased its take in fuel cell stack builder, Ceres Power Holdings Plc from 3.9% to circa 18% in a move to strengthen the collaboration deal struck between both companies in August 2018.

December saw MAN Truck & Bus SE hand over the first two Lion’s City E buses to Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH.

SAF-Holland GmbH has announced it is now offering an optional anti-corrosion coating for its range of axles, whereby the company guarantees the product for 10 years against corrosion.

Utrecht-based electric bus builder, Tribus BV, demonstrated two electric vehicles at VDV Elektro Buses Conference in Berlin this month.

India’s key supplier of exhaust systems, Sharada Motors Industries Ltd and Euro VI exhaust and emission control systems supplier for commercial vehicles, Eberspächer Exhaust Technology International GmbH, which have a 50:50 joint venture called Eberspaecher Sharda Exhaust Technology Pvt Ltd have opened a manufacturing plant in Pune.

Solaris Bus & Coach SA has won a tender to deliver this year three articulated electric buses to Bonn, making it Solaris’s first order from local operator, SWB.

CV builder, MAN Truck & Bus SE, operator Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg Holstein and automotive giant, Volkswagen AG are involved in a joint research project to evaluate the potential of ‘used’ or ‘second-life’ batteries as a way of storing electricity.

The second largest public transport operator in Germany, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH has taken delivery of 16 Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses.