Founded in 2020, Volt Mobility provides long-term secured leases for commercial electric vehicles, from last-mile delivery vans to long haulage trucks, to clients in the Persian Gulf region.

This expands the company's national presence by leveraging VTC’s extensive dealership network. The partnership allows VTC to enhance its vocational truck offerings while supporting sales, service, and parts for Battle Motors’ products nationwide​.

Schmitt will oversee the company sales, commercial operations, dealerships, service, and marketing.

Volvo NA will take over CVG’s ‘Cab Structures’ business, including its assembly plant in Kings Mountain, North Carolina – which is where CVG assembles medium- and heavy-duty cabs for Mack Trucks – for approximately USD40m.

Customers can now order the Paccar TX-12 and ‘TX-12 PRO’ automated transmissions with the ‘Paccar PX-9’ engine for Peterbilt Models 548, 537, and 536.

The companies have successfully completed field tests of the new Cummins X15N 15-litre natural gas engine in combination with Allison’s 4000 Series fully automatic transmission. The results showed significant improvements in fuel efficiency, engine braking, and power during shifting, making the combination ideal for heavy-duty operations.

The projects cover five topic areas, including components for hydrogen fuelling of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, and standardised hydrogen refuelling stations.

Sourcewell is a U.S. government agency which handles procurement on behalf of more than 50,000 participating entities.

Nuvera says it will supply its ‘E-Series’ fuel cell engines to Viritech for testing with the ‘VPT60N’ electric powertrain.

Most of its ADB22X and ADB22X-LT air disc brakes are produced at its manufacturing plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky. The major investment went into a 130,000-square-foot expansion project in 2020.

Representing a planned total investment of USD700m, the Monterrey plant is intended to supplement existing Volvo Group North America and Mack Trucks manufacturing activities across the border in the United States.

Grants totalling USD1.7bn will be made available to support as many as eleven closed or at-risk automotive manufacturing and assembly facilities in switching to the production of electric vehicles and components.