Daimler Trucks North America Inc delivered the first vehicle from its Freightliner Electric Innovation Fleet – a Freightliner eM2 – to Penske Truck Leasing last month (December 2018).

Schmitz Cargobull AG has announced major further investment of some EUR100m in its Vreden factory, which is the company’s centre of expertise for box van and refrigerated semi-trailers and bodies; this capital expenditure was authorised by the group’s Supervisory Board last September.

Continental AG has officially inaugurated its materials research laboratory, called 'Taraxagum Lab Anklam'.

BAE Systems HybriDrive Propulsion Systems, which has sales and application facilities in the UK and a manufacturing plant in Endicott, reached a delivery milestone in November of 10,000 electric drive systems, as part of an order from Toronto Transit Commission.

Swiss bodybuilder, Carosserie Hess AG, has won a tender to supply 50 new electric trolleybuses to Salzburg with deliveries to be spread over six years.

BPW’s new electro-hydraulic auxiliary steering system for trailers called BPW Active Reverse Control is due to go into production next month, according to BPW Bergische Achsen KG.

Roger Alm has been appointed as a new member of Volvo’s Group Executive Board and President Volvo Trucks.

The Mercedes-Benz Car division of Daimler AG has committed itself to an electric future.

A new early warning safety system for preventing collisions between a pedestrian and a vehicle, has been developed by the ZF Group of Friedrichshafen.

Mahle GmbH of Stuttgart has inaugurated a new research and development centre in Valencia. Eventually it is to house around 250 employees working to develop new products and solutions for sustainable mobility, based on vehicle electronics.

While total orders received increased slightly, currency effects resulted in revenues being slightly decreased at GBP4.29n in fiscal year ending September 31, 2018 at the industrial power transfer engineering group, Voith Group, when compared with the previous fiscal year of GBP4.37bn.

Daimler Trucks of Stuttgart, the truck division of Daimler AG, says its global truck sales (which includes the Mercedes-Benz, Fuso, Freightliner, Western Star, Thomas Built Buses and BharatBenz brands) in 2018 will exceed half a million units compared with 470,000 units in 2017.