Thomas Built Buses is to supply the first 50 of its ‘Jouley’ electric school buses to the state of Virginia.

The board of directors of SAF-HOLLAND S.A., decided in December to prepare a change to the legal form of the company into a European Company and for the subsequent transfer of the registered office of the company to Germany.

Mercedes-Benz do Brasil Ltda has agreed with Robert Bosch GmbH to build jointly a state-of-the-art Vehicle Test Centre for commercial vehicles in Brazil.

TE Connectivity, a specialist in connectivity and sensor technology, is introducing new M8/M12 cable assembly solutions for Fieldbus data communications, complementing its existing sensor/actuator cable assembly solutions for industrial networks.

Daimler Buses has announced it is restructuring its touring coach business in the USA and Canada.

Coinciding with start of production of the e-Sprinter in Dusseldorf – Mercedes-Benz Vans held the official commercial market launch of the eSprinter in six major German cities between the 9th and 17th of December 2019, marking its availability to customers.

Transport company, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein has ordered 17 MAN Lion’s City E buses – this is one of two tendered lots and is the first commercial order to be announced by MAN.

Tyre manufacturer, Continental AG, has introduced a new tyre range for intercity operation -  Conti CoachRegio.

At Busworld in October, automotive HVAC supplier, Webasto Group, premiered its scalable Thermal Management System for electric vehicles.

The Krone Group (a producer of agricultural equipment and on-road trailing equipment (ie commercial vehicles - containers and container chassis, swap bodies and semi-trailers)) last month released record figures for Group operations for the year ending July 31, 2019.

The Mercedes-Benz Vans Dusseldorf plant started series production of the full electric Sprinter on December 12.

The Competence Center for Emission-Free Mobility has now been the pilot factory for vehicles with alternative drive systems for 25 years, the automotive giant, Daimler AG, announced last month.