The double articulated lighTram Tosa trolleybus measures 24.7m long and has a capacity for up to 220 passengers. The first buses will be delivered in 2027 with the orders set to be completed by 2032.

In Q3 2024, Iveco announced that it had reached an agreement with German private equity firm, Mutares SE & Co. KGaA, to sell its firefighting vehicle manufacturing unit (Magirus GmbH) for an undisclosed fee. That sale has now gone through.

Thomas Hilse, President of the Firefighting Business Unit at the Iveco Group and CEO of Magirus has left the company with immediate effect.

Following the tests, which were conducted by TÜV Rheinland, SAG’s liquid hydrogen tanks are now certified as safe in the event of an accident involving fire.

The transaction concerns ‘Mahle Powertrain LLC’, a subsidiary based in Plymouth, Michigan whose seventy or so employees provide engineering and consultancy services for the design, testing, development, calibration, and integration of electric and hybrid powertrains.

Nora Oberländer, the grandniece of the company's owner, is set to join the HÜBNER Group's management team on March 1, 2025, bringing her expertise to the leadership of the family business.

As part of its turnaround strategy and decision to outsource production and become an OED (Original Equipment Designer), the company announced a closed auction of bus, truck, and general automotive parts starting on Thursday, 23 January 2025.

When Jim Hutchinson – today the CEO and founder of Fusion Processing Ltd, an autonomous vehicle technology company based in Bristol – began his career in electronic engineering, he could not have imagined that the radar and sensor equipment he was working on would eventually be used to make buses and trucks that can drive themselves. “I can’t claim to have been that visionary [back then],” he told Truck & Bus Builder in an interview. The realisation dawned in the late 2000s, when Hutchinson saw that the growing need for sophisticated sensors in the automotive sector – used at that time for advanced driver assistance systems – would “ultimately” lead to self-driving vehicles navigating with a combination of cameras, radars, and other perception hardware.

Moreover, the group has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Canadian firm, agreeing to offtake 100,000 tonnes of spodumene concentrate per year over a ten-year term.

The Karsan Level 4 autonomous e-ATAK is set to start carrying passengers in Gothenburg between the Central Station and Liseberg Station in August 2025.

This was one of the largest single orders in the company’s storied history.

Klein will replace Mathias Geisen, who will sit on the board of management from 1 February and will take responsibility for group sales from 1 March.