Starting in the first quarter of 2021, CV braking control dynamics specialist, the Haldex Group becomes the lead supplier of EBS and air suspension systems to the Wielton Group, one of Europe’s largest trailer manufacturers.

An EU-funded project to build and trial a hydrogen-powered truck, has started operations in the Netherlands.

Mercedes-Benz AG is investing more than one billion Euros to establish a global battery production network for Mercedes-Benz Car operations.

Masats SA has been chosen as the door supplier by the e-mobility division of Alstom, for its all-electric all-wheel steer APTIS city bus.

Starting in the third quarter of 2020, ZF’s CeTrax electric central drive for public transport will go into volume production.

Ebusco NV says it is to deliver 13, 12m low-floor Ebusco 2.2 electric buses to Transdev Rhein-Main GmbH  in December 2020 to replace current diesel buses.

Andreas Moser (56, appointed head of ZF Commercial Vehicle Technology Division, ZF Friedrichshafen AG, on January I, 2020) last month at the parent company’s headquarters in Friedrichshafen, to a closed group of journalists laid out details of organisational changes within the CV division to address the post-Covid markets and to meet key technology trends taking place in the sector.

ZF Friedrichshafen AG late last month completed the acquisition of commercial vehicle technology supplier, Wabco Holdings Inc, having gained approval from all required regulatory authorities.

The Russian market for trucks with gross vehicle weights of over 5 tons (>5t gvw) has contracted by 2.8% in the first quarter of 2020 (Q1/20) compared with the same period last year, according to statistics kept by LLC Avtostat Info.

In Q1/20, the Russian bus market (GVW>5t) registered 3,448 new buses, which was 29.9% more than 2,655 vehicles in the same period of 2019, according to LLC Avtostat Info.

In the first quarter of 2020, Russia registered 22,342 new light commercial vehicles, which was fractionally up (+0.6%) on the same period last year, according to LLC Avtostat Info.

Despite March figures, which recorded a fall in the sales of new trailers and semi-trailers of 9.6%, the market for the first quarter this year recorded an overall gain of 8.4%, according to Russian Automotive Market Research.