Renault Trucks UK delivered an 18-tonne E-Tech D Wide fitted with a refrigerated body which was built by Solomon Commercials and which is cooled by a Carrier unit.

The MoU covers an initial period of three years, during which time Switch will supply transportation service provider Chalo with variants of the new ‘EiV12’, designed specifically for the Indian market.

The ‘Zero Emission Mobility Innovation Fund’ is targeted at manufacturers who are based in or operating in Scotland and are conducting research and development into or trialling new zero-emission technologies.

Over the coming weeks, eight new Enviro200EV single deck buses will be added to Sky's fleet for carrying staff and visitors to and from its campuses in Scotland and in London.

The transmissions manufacturer uses its own simulation program to evaluate vehicle configurations and predict performance, and to offer recommendations to customers for driveline ratios and shift calibrations based on the desired application.

The body, fitted onto a Volvo FMX truck, was designed and assembled by the customer, Malcolm Allan Housebuilders, to suit its particular needs.

BPW’s modular eTransport axle, an axle with integrated electric drive for distribution vehicles, is now production ready for trucks between 5.5t and 7.5t gvw.

Ceres will be piloting a solid oxide electrolyser - which uses a ceramic as the electrolyte in the process of splitting water molecules to produce hydrogen gas - at Shell's R&D centre in Bangalore.

The Canadian company will start testing its fuel-cell electric demonstrator vehicles - built on MAN eTGE platforms - at the end of July, ahead of first customer deliveries in the fourth quarter of 2022 and pilots shortly thereafter.

Wright, who founded the company with his father in 1946, is credited with leading the design of the first British-built electric bus in 1999 and, in 2015, the world’s first fuel-cell electric double-deck bus.

Dana UK operations has won a grant to develop an electric powertrain for the OX Delivers truck for emerging markets.

Between 30 June and 2 July at NAEC Stoneleigh in Warwickshire, a brand-new exhibition dedicated to trucks made its first appearance.