FPT has signed an agreement with Reefilla to launch a second-life battery project using Iveco’s eBS37 battery packs. Once these batteries are no longer suitable for use, they will be delivered to Reefilla’s headquarters in Turin and repurposed in stationary storage units for charging stations.

The company says that this new range of brake pads provides coverage for 95% of European Heavy-Vehicles including trucks and buses.

The order comprises 135 E-Way buses in the 12-metre version and 90 articulated buses measuring 18 metres. 28 of these will be Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) models. The buses are to be produced at Iveco’s new Italian bus building plant in Foggia, Southern Italy.

The order from CTM Cagliari comprises a mixture of standard and articulated Urbino electric models: 80 12-metre vehicles and 18 artic vehicles.

The Iveco SpA / Plus Inc heavy-duty truck (Iveco S-Way) installed with Plus’s level 4 autonomous driving technology (‘PlusDrive’), has hit public roads in Germany.

These tests were designed to see how the vehicle copes in extreme temperatures and to try out the newly developed thermal management system. The engineers were also interested to monitor how the fuel cell system operates at extreme altitudes.

The 3.5-tonne Iveco eDaily has set an official Guinness World Record for the highest weight towed by an electric box van. The vehicle pulled three trucks with a total weight of 153.8 tonnes over the required distance of 30 metres.

The Italian public transport operator, SASA, has ordered nine 18-metre-long articulated buses with a fuel cell range extender which will be used in northern Italy from the end of this year with deliveries scheduled between the end of 2023 and the beginning of 2024.

Up to 280 units of Rampini’s 8-metre electric bus, the ‘Eltron’, are now available for public transport operators in Italy to order with certain customisation options.

This is just one of many recent acquisitions by Borgwarner in the electromobility sector.

The Driveaway programme has added three new Iveco Daily 3.5 tonne options, powered by Iveco’s 136HP diesel engine, paired with a manual transmission.

The T&BB team attended UITP in Barcelona to bring you the latest news which included the debut of the first electric version of the 13m suburban Crossway intercity bus (Crossway Le Elec), and which was accompanied by a 9.5m electric urban midibus from the E-Way range.