Ford of Britain has introduced a new 5.0-tonne Transit derivative, offering customers a van or chassis cab rated to 5,000kg gross vehicle weight which becomes available from late November.

ARBOC Specialty Vehicles LLC will be the first to include anti-microbial sidewall panels from Polser USA for the interiors of its buses.

Polser International, a global manufacturer of fibreglass reinforced plastic products for RVs, CVs and other transportation industry vehicles, is investing in a warehouse distribution facility in Elkhart having formed a subsidiary company there called Polser USA Inc.

With two electric bus models, the Jest Electric and Atak Electric midi-buses in series production and sales now exceeding 100 units, Karsan Otomotiv Sanayii ve Tic A.Ş. is moving full throttle to develop an autonomous version of Atak Electric!

Following the revelation of the its Euro 6 compliant heavy truck, called F-Max, in April 2017, Ford Trucks of Kocaeli, Turkey, is moving forward with expanding its distribution base in Western Europe through the appointment of private and independently-owned distributors, which it hopes to complete by 2023.

Cummins Inc used Busworld Turkey 2020 in Istanbul last month to display its Next Generation Battery Electric System in an 8.9m long bus; the system is typically for the European bus market.

Karsan Otomotiv Sanayii ve Tic. A.Ş. has appointed Quantron AG as its dealer for Germany to expand its sales and service network in Europe’s largest bus market with a market size of 7,000 units a year.

With more than 100 Bluebird Corporation buses now in operation with Cummins’ electric drivetrain in the USA and 65 buses on order with its transit bus builder partner, Gillig Corporation, and a number of key prospect electrification contracts in both the truck and bus segments on the horizon, the Cummins Electrified Power Business is expecting to ramp up its electrical drive systems over the coming months.

Karsan Otomotiv Sanayii ve Tic A.Ş. used Busworld Turkey 2020 to announce major sales success of its two electric bus models, the Jest Electric and Atak Electric, which were displayed on the company’s show stand, while a Jest Electric was available for a ride and drive on the ground of the fair.

Automotive production in Turkey has been declining in 2018 and 2019, but compared with other automotive segments, the bus and coach segment has proven to be more resilient.

While there have been tenders during the last few years for electric buses in Turkey, which have then later been cancelled due to the recession, the CNG market remains in better shape, according to Cenk Yavuz, territory manager, Turkey for on-highway business of Turkey Engine Power Systems Ltd of Izmir.

Motion control systems supplier for commercial vehicles, Wabco Holdings Inc, is building a new USD20m manufacturing facility in Sakarya, Turkey.