Turin, Italy-based Iveco Group NV has announced it intends to resume bus production in Italy. The firm intends to assemble hydrogen fuel cell and battery-electric buses at the Iveco plant in Foggia, southern Italy, with alternative propulsion systems produced in Turin.

Quantron will work together with FRIEM's retrofit business - a subsidiary called EYES - to enlarge the market for diesel-to-electric conversions in Italy.

Brembo SpA has expanded its offering of brake products for heavy duty applications across the truck, bus, and trailer segments. The firm states that it has introduced 100 new unique part numbers, including 67 new brake pads.

e-Charging company, Enel X, based in Rome, Italy, has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Iveco, based in Turin, Italy. As part of the agreement, the two firms will assess the interoperability of Enel X’s charging infrastructure with Iveco Group electric vehicles; they will also evaluate the best ways that Iveco vehicles can support Enel’s transition to a zero-emission vehicle fleet.

The Czech manufacturing plant of Turin, Italy-based Iveco Bus, located in Vysoké Mýto, has produced its 150,000th bus. Located around 150km east of Prague, the plant has been producing vehicles since 1895, previously for historical Czech companies Sodomka and Karosa.

Sales increased by 10.4% in 2021, from 3,145 units to 3,471, but they remain well short of 2019 sales of 4,211 units (a 17.6% decrease from 2019 to 2021), according to ANFIA.

ABB Ltd of Zürich, Switzerland, has installed its Terra 124 electric chargers at the San Donato bus depot of Milan’s public transport operator ATM (Azienda Transporti Milanesi). The chargers will support Milan’s transition to an all-electric bus fleet by 2030.

Batteries from Houston, Texas-based developer Microvast Holdings Inc will be featured in the upcoming Crossway LE Electric low entry bus from Iveco Group, based in Turin, Italy.

The plant will be dedicated to the production of advanced filtration and thermal management systems for battery-electric and fuel-cell electric vehicles as well as plug-in hybrids.

Iveco Group N.V. has begun trading on the Euronext Milan exchange, as of January 3rd, 2022.

The order is an extension of an agreement with Milan's municipal transport operator ATM, through which it has already received 30 Trollino 18 trolleybuses.

Enel X will collaborate with Optibus to create an end-to-end solution for electric bus operators. The solution will combine Enel X’s EV charging infrastructure with Optibus’ planning and scheduling software.