The California Energy Commission has announced qualifying buses passing its Technical Evaluation phase, can now be ordered through the Clean Transportation Programme’s Grant, GFO-18-604.

Cummins Inc has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, all the issued and outstanding shares of fuel cell systems provider, Hydrogenics Corporation, for approximately USD290m.

Parameter Plus Package is a new software application package from Volvo Trucks North America Inc allowing up to 50 parameter updates annually per vehicle.

Lisle-based CV builder, Navistar Inc, has signed a service partnership agreement with Love’s Travel Stops, adding over 315 Love’s Truck Tire Care and Speedco locations and more than 1,000 technicians to the Navistar International service network.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc has confirmed Volvo Active Driver Assist 2.0, a comprehensive collision mitigation system, will become standard equipment in the new Volvo VNR and VNL models, and available on VNX models, later this year.

Akasol AG, a producer of high-performance lithium-ion battery systems for commercial vehicles, has announced plans to open a production facility in the metro Detroit area of Michigan, USA.

Cummins Ltd, the European manufacturing hub for Cummins Inc, announced its readiness to meet Euro VI-step D emissions control with clean diesels at the UITP Congress.

Volvo Trucks North America Inc alongside automated vehicle software provider, Perceptive Automata and customer, Dependable Highway Express, has unveiled a collaborative innovation project designed to strengthen safety capabilities for the trucking industry through automation.

Specialty chassis and full truck manufacturer, Spartan Motors Inc, has purchased the assets of General Truck Body and will begin operating a production facility located in Montebello, California.

Allision Transmission Inc is to build additional facilities in Indiana as part of investment and growth strategy plans involving more than USD400m expenditure over the next few years.

New Flyer of America Inc said a test demonstration for the Orange County Transportation Authority achieved 350-miles of zero-emission range with a New Flyer forty-foot, heavy-duty hydrogen fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 bus.

New Flyer has announced its New Flyer Infrastructure Solutions division has successfully deployed two rapid, on-route chargers along New York City Transit Authority’s M42 route.