Container chassis producer, CIE Manufacturing Inc, which officially changed its name in late January this year from CIMC Intermodal Equipment Inc, says it is transitioning from an assembly operation of container chassis imported from China for the north American market to full scale manufacturing production in the United States this year.

As part of the company’s strategy to expand operations, senior management roles at electric vehicle builder, Proterra Inc, have been restructured appointing current chairman, Jack Allen as chairman and chief executive officer and Ryan Popple, Proterra’s current CEO since 2014, appointed as co-founder and executive director.

The MIRA Technology Park, one of Europe’s leading mobility R&D centres for automotive technologies, has announced it is partnering with Plug and Play, the US innovation platform for start-up technology companies to create the UK’s first Mobility Innovation Hub.

Jacobs Vehicle Systems has announced it is to extend the supply compression release engine brakes across the full range of Yuchai K Series heavy duty engines made by Guangxi Yuchai Machinery Co Ltd, one of China’s largest engine makers based in Yulin.

This year, coach building specialist, MCI, is offering 100% battery electric versions of its best-selling coach models for tour, charter and employee shuttle application, the 35ft, J3500 model and the 45ft, J4500 coach model, according to JP Pelletier, VP Engineering MCI NFI Group - Coach Business, announcing this during a presentation at the Busworld Academy North America held during the ABA Marketplace 2020 in Omaha earlier this year.

“At Navistar we are power agnostic, we offer diesel (Cummins), gasoline (PSI), gas (PSI) and in the near future, electric powered vehicles,” stated Gary Horvat,  Navistar, Vice President eMobility.

“The buzz word right now is zero emissions, and whenever someone talks about zero missions, we go straight to battery electric, but that is not the only option,” were some of the opening remarks made by Jeff Madura – Van Hool, Director of Public Sector Sales, North America in a presentation on Van Hool’s role on new technologies.

While hydrogen still has less of a market share than many other alternative fuels, it has some compelling advantages as a fuel: It offers zero emissions, especially for heavy-duty vehicles that require fast fill times and a lot of on board energy storage, stated Erik Bigelow, Center for Transportation and the Environment.

For heavy duty and medium duty vehicles, natural gas makes a lot of sense, stated Daniel Gage, president, Natural Gas Vehicles for America in his compelling presentation at the Busworld Academy at the ABA Marketplace 2020 event held in Omaha, Nebraska, USA in January 2020.

At what proved to be two days of very high-level seminars earlier this year by speakers from around the world on various subjects associated with public passenger transport and mobility at ABA’s Marketplace 2020 convention in Omaha - organized by Busworld Academy together with the American Bus Association - Busworld announced it was taking the partnership a major step further in 2021 with the launch of the first Busworld North America exhibition.

Cummins Inc used Busworld Turkey 2020 in Istanbul last month to display its Next Generation Battery Electric System in an 8.9m long bus; the system is typically for the European bus market.

BorgWarner Inc has announced technologies to further increase reliability of its Delco Remy branded starter motors are to be available soon for the heavy-duty truck market.