DAF UK has appointed new sales directors, including Nigel Beckett as UK Parts Sales & Marketing Director, and a new EV Sales and Services team.

The proposed joint venture with the Taylor Group of Companies will build a manufacturing facility in Lowndes County, Mississippi and establish a distribution network for selling, leasing and servicing Terberg terminal tractors.

The Night Lock, which DAF claims is 150% stronger than comparable products on the market, will be available as an option for the new XF/XG/XG+ trucks or as a retrofit for older models.

The Dutch manufacturer has announced that its Citea range has collectively travelled over 200 million kilometres since the first iteration was introduced in 2013.

German CV electrification conversion start-up, Clean Logistics SE in Hamburg has agreed terms to buy Dutch heavy-duty multi-axle truck conversion specialist and modifier, GINAF Trucks Netherlands B.V. from the management team at GINAF.

The Finnish firm is investing EUR1.9bn to expand production at its refinery from 1.4m to 2.7m tons per year, beginning in the first half of 2026.

The 26-tonne vehicle successfully traversed a 48-kilometre stretch between the city of Salzburg in the northern foothills of the Alps and the lookout point of Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Höhe, becoming the very first fully-electric truck to do so.

The 200 MW electrolyser, called ‘Holland Hydrogen I’, will be constructed on the Tweede Maasvlakte in the port of Rotterdam and will produce up to 60,000 kg of renewable hydrogen per day.

The joint venture between Traton, Daimler Truck and Volvo has received the relevant regulatory approvals and will begin operations this year, led by Anja van Niersen.

Stellantis has already invested in expanding its capability to test all types of electric vehicle at the Orbassano Safety Center in Italy, and it is currently investing in its wind tunnel complex in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

The corporation has made a EUR50m equity investment into Vulcan Energy, which is currently operating a zero-emission project in the Upper Rhine Valley for the extraction of critical vehicle battery elements.

The two companies intend to collaborate long term on the integration of Aidrivers’ autonomous driving technology in Terberg’s terminal tractors, targeting the Asian and Middle Eastern markets.