Daimler announced decreased sales in 2024, with 460,409 trucks and buses sold compared with 526,053 in 2023, a 12% decrease. This is a rocky start for recently appointed CEO Karin Rådström, who succeeded Martin Daum late last year.

The GBP 3.5 million investment opened its doors on February 13 and will exclusively train apprentices for the DAF brand, with 500 individuals confirmed to attend courses in its first year.

The new building will replace the company’s old Hamburg branch which dates back to the 1970s.

The Enviro500EVs for the MTR Corporation are complete Alexander Dennis vehicles (chassis and body) manufactured by a contract manufacturing partner in Zhuhai.

The new site includes a workshop, office space and a parts facility capable of servicing and maintaining both DAF ICE and electric trucks. The site was relocated due to the proximity to the A40, M40 and M25.

The new MWT-XXL can transport tower segments with inner diameters measuring between 2,850 and 6,100 millimetres.

Production is scheduled to begin in 2026, with a focus on serving OEMs across Europe, North America and Asia.

For the commercial vehicle sector, this partnership expands fuel supply options, with the potential to accelerate the adoption of hydrogen power in commercial vehicles in Germany.

The high-powered 1.2 MW chargers are expected to go into series production later this year and initially, will be rolled out in Finland and then later to other parts of Europe and North America.

In early 2023, a new name was introduced to the commercial vehicle industry: “Accelera by Cummins”. It was the result of eight separate acquisitions made by parent company Cummins Inc over a period of as many years, all of them connected, albeit in different ways, to zero-emission technology. Naturally, Cummins wished to differentiate its new purchases from its ongoing engine business, and it is not the only legacy manufacturer to attempt a rebrand for its electric vehicle products (a la General Motors’ “Brightdrop” and Shyft Group’s “Blue Arc”). But it also aims to weld its acquisitions together into a single, cohesive unit capable of delivering “end-to-end electric solutions”. Molly Hale – who is the marketing communications manager for Accelera – explained: “There was this belief that we needed to have an identity all our own, to go to the market and explain the depth of the commitment and the depth of the investments in these technologies.”

The company received a general operating permit or ‘ABE’ certificate from the German authorities for its ‘Solar Bus Kit’, a retrofit solution which runs heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning off of solar panels fitted on the roof of the bus.

These batteries will be ZEN LFP manufactured in Chasseneuil-du-Poitou in France and shipped to Turkey where the coach manufacturing is set to take place.