Paletar announced she has removed the position of CEO and reshuffled the management following her acquisition of all the company shares.

The Austrian trailer builder’s performance in 2022 outstripped its sales in the previous year by 9% (EUR409m).

117 zero-emission buses are to be manufactured by Wrightbus in Northern Ireland and operated by FirstBus across the UK.

With Fernride’s technology, drivers will be able to “teleoperate” the tractors – that is to say, they will be able to drive them remotely – and take advantage of assistance systems that Terberg and Fernride will “gradually” develop in order to make the vehicles more and more autonomous.

With deliveries beginning in the second half of 2023, this order follows the announcement in January of a 500 articulated E-WAY electric city bus order from Flemish government-owned public transport operator De Lijn.

The two companies have agreed to a pilot phase during which Ecobat will maintain and repair lithium-ion batteries for Tevva’s customers - with scope to expand the partnership to additional energy storage and battery recycling services.

Hofmann, who has previously worked for Volkswagen, will lead the development of Volta Trucks’ Digital Platform.

The company announced that series production is set to begin in the second quarter of this year at the contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Upper Austria.

The facility includes a 15,000-square-foot workshop with all the necessary infrastructure to service traditional internal combustion engine-powered trucks as well as electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles.

The company has started pre-series production of its new all-electric Syberia eCool temperature-controlled unit, designed to be used with urban delivery electric trucks.

The contract, with the Swedish public operator, Svealandstrafiken, comprises 23 Ebusco 3.0 13.5-metre Class II e-buses with an option to purchase an additional 41.

Iveco has offered several iterations of the eDaily over the past decade.