Vancouver-based GreenPower Motor Company Inc, a manufacturer and distributor of zero emissions electric powered medium and heavy-duty vehicles, has delivered its first EV Star Cargo Plus delivery truck to the city of Vancouver.

Electric bus manufacturer, BYD Europe BV from its plant in Hungary has delivered the majority of what it claims is Europe’s largest single order for electric buses to Keolis Nederland BV.

Daimler Trucks AG has delivered a further four Fuso eCanters to PostNL, the Dutch postal service.

Air conditioning manufacturer, Hispacold International, says an independent test shows its eco3 air purifier is 99.7% effective in removing the coronavirus from the air.

New distribution electric truck start up, Volta Trucks has announced it has entered a long term strategic partnership with Petit Forestier SAS - the European leader in refrigeration rentals - to develop and build a full-electric refrigerated delivery truck.

Electric van and bus manufacturing start up, Arrival Ltd, is establishing its North American headquarters in Charlotte, adding around 150 new employees and plans to invest USD3m establishing the company’s new offices on South Tryon Street, South End, North Carolina.

Nikola Corporation and Republic Services Inc, the second largest recycling and solid waste provider in the USA, have discontinued their collaboration on refuse truck development following agreement in August this year for Republic Services to purchase 2,500 battery electric vehicles.

Following a successful four-month pilot programme of Volvo Trucks’ new Driver Display Activation application, Volvo Trucks North America Inc says the programme went into full production on November 30, 2020.

Climate change is the most fundamental challenge of our generation, with greenhouse gases from fossil fuels being the main cause of the problem.

Following the announcement by ACEA-PIK on delivering fossil-free trucks by 2040, Alastair Hayfield, senior research director for commercial vehicles at market research firm, Interact Analysis made the following comments: “Currently, the medium- and heavy-duty battery electric truck market is very small: in Europe it amounted to 124 units in 2019 (44 medium-duty trucks and 80 heavy-duty trucks).

OEMs and ‘PIK’ scientists offer roadmap and policy advice (conditions) to governments to achieve fossil-free road transport over the next two decades

ZF PowerLine, the name of a new but proven 8-speed automatic transmission for the medium-heavy truck and bus segments (and pickup trucks), has gone into series production in Friedrichshafen.