Energy management specialist, ABB, has opened a battery energy storage manufacturing plant in Baden designed for storing electrical energy for charging electric trucks, electric buses and trolleybuses as well as electric and hybrid locomotives.

MobilityXlab is the name of the innovation hub run by the Volvo Group since September 2017 in partnership with five other global mobility companies: CEVT, Ericsson, Veoneer, Volvo Cars and Zenuity, and this year it plans to welcome no fewer than 11 start-up companies to join the innovation accelerator.

Specialist semi-trailer manufacturer, Benalu Group, has announced development of Easy Security, the first fully connected tipping semi-trailer in the world, so the company claims.

Benalu SAS, the aluminium trailer specialist of the Benalu Group has launched an optimised version of the JumboLiner moving floor trailer, called JumboLiner 2, to increase sales even further in this market segment of France, as well as other markets.

Belgian passenger transport company, De Lijn, has ordered 200 hybrid Citeas from VDL Bus & Coach.

TE Connectivity, a specialist in connectivity and sensor technology, is introducing new M8/M12 cable assembly solutions for Fieldbus data communications, complementing its existing sensor/actuator cable assembly solutions for industrial networks.

Iveco Defence Vehicles, a subsidiary of CNH Industrial NV, has won an order for potentially more than 2,900 high mobility heavy-duty  military trucks from the Romanian Ministry of National Defence.

Caetano Bus says it is focusing sales of its electric bus chassis predominantly to markets located outside Western Europe, according to Jörg Pinto CEO of the Salvador Caetano Group in an interview with T&BB at Busworld in late October.

Daimler Buses has announced it is restructuring its touring coach business in the USA and Canada.

Coinciding with start of production of the e-Sprinter in Dusseldorf – Mercedes-Benz Vans held the official commercial market launch of the eSprinter in six major German cities between the 9th and 17th of December 2019, marking its availability to customers.

Volvo Bus UK & Ireland has signalled its intention to introduce its 9700 fully built coach model to the UK market.

Transport company, Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein has ordered 17 MAN Lion’s City E buses – this is one of two tendered lots and is the first commercial order to be announced by MAN.