This is one of the largest single orders to date for the Crossway Elec, underlining Iveco Bus’s strong position in the European intercity segment. Deliveries are already underway, with the fleet entering service across Flanders during 2025.

Taylor spent over 20 years at Hyva, including 14 years as Managing Director, where he oversaw manufacturing, product development, sales, and aftersales.

This concept vehicle marks a significant step in the company’s connected automated mobility efforts in a market that will take off in the next several years once regulation catches up to the technology.

Electra Commercial Vehicles Ltd (Electra), the Blackburn-based specialist in zero-emission commercial vehicles, has partnered with highways innovator WJ Group to launch the world’s first fully electric thermoplastic road-marking vehicle, according to the company.

Broshuis is a family-owned company specialising in the design and manufacture of trailers. The company produces semi-low trailers, low-bed trailers and flat-bed heavy-haul trailers.

Speaking with EVM officials, they told us that the company had secured two significant contract wins that underline its growing footprint in the UK bus and coach sector.

With more than 15,000 Maxus pickups and light commercial vehicles being delivered a year into the UK, the Harris Group is now entering the medium-duty truck market segment starting with the eDeliver 75 battery electric truck from this October.

The project, developed with Emergency One, Cenex and the London Fire Brigade, is already being integrated into Emergency One’s EV0 electric fire appliance range, with Equipmake providing the energy management system. Still at the demonstrator stage, ZEPA V2V shows clear commercial potential to increase duty cycles of electric emergency vehicles.

‘Solar Control’ is the name given by Finn Lamex to a lamination foil sandwiched between two laminated panes of glass making up a windscreen.

The German supplier has reportedly hired nearly fifty new employees to work on a line that will produce high-voltage air conditioning compressors for electric vehicles.

There was a short span of time between the late 2010s and early 2020s when it seemed like retrofits would become a serious contender to new electric vehicles in the transition from the combustion engine. Several new companies began by offering retrofit services to convert used diesel vehicles to run on electric. Most of these startups have since fallen by the wayside; many of the remaining firms have survived by changing their business models. The general sluggishness of the electric vehicle market is, of course, partly to blame. However, these retrofit pioneers were also beset by unforeseen difficulties that made what appeared at the outset to be a winning formula – take a used vehicle, rip out the engine, put an electric powertrain in its place, and sell it on – into a more complicated equation. “We totally underestimated the complexity of converting a diesel vehicle into an electric one in the beginning,” said Holger Seefelder, who is responsible for commercial vehicle sales in the Europe, Middle East, & Africa region for German supplier Voith.

Miedreich will assume the CEO role as soon as incumbent CEO Dr Holger Klein and Prof Dr Peter Laier, the head of the Commercial Vehicle Solutions division, leave the company at the end of the month.