Wabco Holdings Inc has announced it is to sell its commercial vehicle steering systems subsidiary, RH Sheppard Co Inc to fellow CV brake specialist, Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC for USD149.5m.

Renault Trucks SAS has signed a contract to supply 20, D Wide Z.E 26-tonne trucks to the Carlsberg Group’s Swiss subsidiary, the Feldschlösschen Brewery in Rheinfelden.

Energy management specialist, ABB, has opened a battery energy storage manufacturing plant in Baden designed for storing electrical energy for charging electric trucks, electric buses and trolleybuses as well as electric and hybrid locomotives.

Fleet logistics management and vehicle hire giant, Ryder System Inc, together with In-Charge Energy Incand global electrification company, Zurich-headquartered ABB, have announced a first-of-its-kind partnership to provide nationwide turnkey energy and electric vehicle charging infrastructure as a service to Ryder customers in North America.

Irizar e-mobility has been awarded a contract to supply 15 zero-emission ie Tram units and a charging network in Schaffhausen.

Two battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now in operation in Switzerland: one has joined logistics service provider Camion Transport and the other is with retail company Migros.

Swiss energy storage company, Leclanché  has commissioned Comau specializing in advanced industrial automation products and systems, to build one of the world’s first automated manufacturing lines for lithium-ion battery modules for transport applications.

Sabanci Holding, one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates, has sold its vehicle manufacturing business, Temsa  SA to Swiss firm, True Value Capital Partners.

CELSENIO is the new brand name of a new modular, ‘plug and play’ single temperature cooling unit for refrigerated semi-trailers developed in partnership by Krone Commercial Vehicles SE and Liebherr-Aerospace & Transportation SAS.

Swiss bodybuilder, Carosserie Hess AG, has won a tender to supply 50 new electric trolleybuses to Salzburg with deliveries to be spread over six years.