Green Mountain Power will receive a Lion8 bucket truck and a Lion6 stake body truck from Lion Electric in 2022 and 2023 respectively.

TUPY SA, Westport Fuel Systems Inc and AVL List GmbH have announced a collaboration to develop a hydrogen internal combustion engine for heavy goods transportation.

AC Transit, which operates in the San Francisco Bay Area, has ordered an additional 20 fuel cell electric buses from New Flyer of America.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc on June 8, 2021, through public offerings on the US Nasdaq Exchange and Canadian Toronto Stock Exchange of 20,930,000 shares at USD5.50 a share, generated USD115,115,000.00 in gross proceeds.

Apollo Tyres Ltd of Gurugram, says it has now entered the truck-bus tyre segment in the USA and Canada and developed tyre range that meets the demand of the North American commercial fleets. It says it has a phased product rollout to cover some 90% of the truck and bus market by 2024.

Motor Coach Industries of Des Moines, part of the NFI Group, has unveiled its first two battery-electric zero-emission coaches for the North American market within weeks of each other.

QEV Technologies of Barcelona, Spain, an engineering firm specialising in electric mobility for motorsports and a range of commercial vehicle applications, has announced a partnership with Geotab Inc of Oakville, Ontario, a specialist in IoT and connected mobility, for the supply of telematics.

Software specialist, BlackBerry Ltd of  Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has been selected by Volvo Group to provide BlackBerry QNX as the foundation software for its main domain controller of electronic control units in more than 300,000 heavy vehicles the company manufactures every year.

Consolidated Metco Inc, the Vancouver, Washington, USA manufacturer of commercial vehicle hub assemblies and parts has entered a partnership with Toronto-based Fleet Complete, a global provider of connected mobility solutions, to combine their data services to improve fleet efficiency and maintenance.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc, the Vancouver-based fuel systems specialist has begun initial trials of a heavy-duty internal combustion engine running on hydrogen (H2) fuel, using its patented and proprietary High Pressure Direct Injection (HPDI) 2.0 system.

Ballard Power Systems of Vancouver has received follow-on purchase orders from Ballymena-based Wrightbus for 50 fuel cell modules to power fuel cell electric buses, for deployment in UK cities.

Westport Fuel Systems Inc of Vancouver, Canada and AVL, the Austrian-headquartered independent specialist in development, simulation and testing of powertrain systems, have jointly released a report entitled: ‘Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Analysis for Heavy Duty Hydrogen Fuelled Powertrains.’