The new facility is to supply a full range of lubricants to a broad number of industrial segments including the on-highway road transport sector.

The Indian Government's subsidies for transit buses under the FAME programme has reinited sales.

Sona Comstar to make electric drive components under licence from Equipmake.

BharatBenz is a brand name of Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, which is fully supported by Daimler Truck AG

Strong tractor demand in Q4 helps boost production by similar volumes.

Cummins has had Euro VI engines in the market in Europe since 2013, with first introduction of on-board-diagnostic compliance tools for heavy-duty vehicles having been in 2010.

Medium and heavy rigid truck sales in India remain the life blood of the road transport sector - sales improve 5.1% during the final quarter of FY2022-23.

This recycling facility is believed to be the first of its kind in India - it complies with the Indian government's Vehicle Scrapping Policy - Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernization Program (V-VMP), which took effect on April 1, 2022.

The recovery in India's light-duty bus sector seen late last calender year continued into the last quarter of fiscal year 2022-23.

Sales of LCV goods carrier vehicles (light trucks) of gvw ≤ 7.5t fell by 1.2% in Q4 of FY 2022-23 ending March 31, 2023 compared with same period of FY 2021-22.

The first model, the BE 5528+ truck was introduced in November 2022, marking the beginning of Blue Energy Motor's entry into the LNG-fuelled truck industry.

Over the next five years the global market for bus and coach is expected to almost double from around 169,000 in 2022 to 309,000 in 2027, according to Krishna Achutan, Program Manager at Frost & Sullivan speaking at a Busworld foundation seminar at Busworld North America.