Initially launched in the 11.00R20 size, ROCKRAD will be rolled out across India’s major mining regions.

With more than 15,000 Maxus pickups and light commercial vehicles being delivered a year into the UK, the Harris Group is now entering the medium-duty truck market segment starting with the eDeliver 75 battery electric truck from this October.

The project, developed with Emergency One, Cenex and the London Fire Brigade, is already being integrated into Emergency One’s EV0 electric fire appliance range, with Equipmake providing the energy management system. Still at the demonstrator stage, ZEPA V2V shows clear commercial potential to increase duty cycles of electric emergency vehicles.

India’s domestic sales of buses (GVW 7.5 tons and above) registered a modest increase of 6.6% in Q1 FY2025-26, rising to 18,137 units from 17,009 units in the same quarter of FY2024-25.

M&M has changed the company’s leadership structure.

‘Solar Control’ is the name given by Finn Lamex to a lamination foil sandwiched between two laminated panes of glass making up a windscreen.

The German supplier has reportedly hired nearly fifty new employees to work on a line that will produce high-voltage air conditioning compressors for electric vehicles.

Sales of light-duty buses and coaches (GVW ≤ 7.5t) grew by 8.8%, reaching 16,949 units in Q1 FY2025-26, compared with 15,571 units in Q1 FY2024-25.

Select models will be offered with extended warranty cover of up to five years or 200,000km.

There was a short span of time between the late 2010s and early 2020s when it seemed like retrofits would become a serious contender to new electric vehicles in the transition from the combustion engine. Several new companies began by offering retrofit services to convert used diesel vehicles to run on electric. Most of these startups have since fallen by the wayside; many of the remaining firms have survived by changing their business models. The general sluggishness of the electric vehicle market is, of course, partly to blame. However, these retrofit pioneers were also beset by unforeseen difficulties that made what appeared at the outset to be a winning formula – take a used vehicle, rip out the engine, put an electric powertrain in its place, and sell it on – into a more complicated equation. “We totally underestimated the complexity of converting a diesel vehicle into an electric one in the beginning,” said Holger Seefelder, who is responsible for commercial vehicle sales in the Europe, Middle East, & Africa region for German supplier Voith.

Miedreich will assume the CEO role as soon as incumbent CEO Dr Holger Klein and Prof Dr Peter Laier, the head of the Commercial Vehicle Solutions division, leave the company at the end of the month.

The company has not disclosed the scale of its investment, but the facility is being described as a major strategic commitment to its hydrogen technologies business. The site is scheduled to be fully operational in autumn 2025.