UK electric delivery van start-up, Arrival Ltd, has received an order from logistics giant, UPS, for 10,000 purpose-built electric vehicles.

Volvo Buses is to supply Nobina AB, with 60 high-capacity articulated electric buses which will enter service in Malmö next year.

The new test track is to facilitate the testing and validation agencies to expand its scope of services offered to automakers and suppliers in India.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd in Mumbai last month unveiled no fewer than 12 all-new BS VI-compliant medium and heavy-duty BharatBenz-branded trucks and buses, which have been fully updated inside and out, said the company.

Transit buses, school buses and intercity / tour coach segments are on different trajectories when looking at global bus demand, stated Veerender Kaul, global vice-president commercial mobility at Frost and Sullivan talking at Busworld Academy North America about the global and North American bus and coach markets.

WABCO India Ltd has signed a development agreement with Oy Tamware Ab for the design and development of bus doors for the Indian commercial vehicle market.

LCV sales in Russia decreased by 1.9% to 104,224 units in 2019 from 106,224 vehicles in 2018 with the sales of foreign brands contracting by 6.5% from 36,670 to 34,288 units and the sales of Russia LCVs inching up by 0.5% from 69,554 to 69,936 units, according to statistics collated by Avtostat Info.

Truck (>5t gvw) sales in Russia in 2019 totalled 78,807 units, which was 3.3% fewer than the 80,702 trucks registered in 2018, according to figures produced by Avtostat Info.

The Russian bus and coach market reached 13,963 units in 2019, an increase of 5.2% on 13,274 in 2018, according to statistics collated by LLC Avtostat Info.

Albi-based SAFRA, a long established renovator of buses, trams, metro and funicular vehicles and more recently, a specialist bus builder of high quality innovative hydrogen electric, battery electric and hybrid 9-12m city buses, has announced it is increasing production on the back of an increasing order book.

Vision Systems North America Inc has been granted a five-year exemption by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to allow the use of its Smart-Vision high-definition camera monitoring system, which negates the requirement for driving mirrors on commercial vehicles.

Norwegian grocery distributor, ASKO AS last month began pilot operation of four Scania hydrogen fuel cell 26+1 tonnes gross vehicle weight trucks with an electric driveline.