Brazilian vehicle manufacturing concern, Agrale SA of Caxias do Sul, Brazil, has delivered its first gas-powered bus, model MT 17.0 LE, to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.

The plant of Freudenberg-NOK Components Brazil Ltda, a Freudenberg Group company, based in Diadema, São Paulo is to close.

Eletra Industrial Ltda of São Bernardo do Campo, the leading Brazilian manufacturer of electric buses, in September launched a new version of the DualBus, a 15m series hybrid electric city bus with electric drive and combustion engine, where the engine is used as a generator to charge the batteries.

Brazil’s largest independent vehicle assembler and distributor of Hyundai and more recently Chery cars, CAOA Grupo has bought the Ford Motor Company factory in São Bernardo do Campo.

“The market bought in nine months what was sold throughout 2018,” said Luiz Carlos de Moraes, president of ANFAVEA, the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers based in São Paulo.

Iveco Latin America Ltda of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, (a subsidiary of CNH Industrial), has exported 40, 170S28-type bus chassis to Peru: Ten chassis are to be used by Andrea Express in Piurra and 30 by ET Salvador in Lima.

Scania do Brasil Ltda has sold 300 New Generation model trucks to G10, a buying and operational consortium of transport operators, which is based in Maringá.

BMB Mode Center Ltda, the vehicle modification specialist for Volkswagen Trucks and Buses, has just completed 18 years of operations, manufacturing some 135,000 custom-built bodies in that timeframe.

In partnership with Volvo Buses Latin America, Marcopolo SA, in May and June delivered 120 new buses for the urban public transport system, Red Mobilidad in the Chilean capital city of Santiago.

DAF Trucks Brazil Ltda estimates its sales by the end of the year will be almost double those registered in 2018, with more than 4,500 units registered.

The opportunity for DAF Trucks Brazil Ltda to sell more trucks in Brazil has risen with the arrival in the country in June of Paccar Financial.

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda, a subsidiary of the Traton Group has added the Delivery 4.160 urban distribution truck to its export programme for Mexico; in March it launched its larger model, the Delivery 6.160.