Eaton Divisão de Transmissões Ltda – a subsidiary of Eaton Corporation – announced the roll out and availability of its latest automated transmission - UltraShiftPlus MHD ten-speed – in Volkswagen’s Constellation truck range.

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda has started exporting its new Delivery trucks range to Costa Rica: Six, nine and 11 ton models (6.160, 9.170 and 11.180), have already been delivered to its official dealer / importer representative,  Eurobus SA in San Jose.

Volkswagen Caminhões e Ônibus Ltda plans to introduce Eaton automated transmissions in its medium-duty versions of its Delivery truck at Fenatran 2019, which takes place this month from October 14th to 18th at the Expo Center in São Paulo.

The new production unit is located within an existing MANN+HUMMEL plant and near its main customer. The plant is to be digitally connected with lean manufacturing principals focused on reducing waste.

Brazilian vehicle manufacturing concern, Agrale SA of Caxias do Sul, Brazil, has delivered its first gas-powered bus, model MT 17.0 LE, to Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.

The plant of Freudenberg-NOK Components Brazil Ltda, a Freudenberg Group company, based in Diadema, São Paulo is to close.

Eletra Industrial Ltda of São Bernardo do Campo, the leading Brazilian manufacturer of electric buses, in September launched a new version of the DualBus, a 15m series hybrid electric city bus with electric drive and combustion engine, where the engine is used as a generator to charge the batteries.

Brazil’s largest independent vehicle assembler and distributor of Hyundai and more recently Chery cars, CAOA Grupo has bought the Ford Motor Company factory in São Bernardo do Campo.

“The market bought in nine months what was sold throughout 2018,” said Luiz Carlos de Moraes, president of ANFAVEA, the National Association of Automotive Vehicle Manufacturers based in São Paulo.

H2.City Gold is the name of the new hydrogen powered Caetano electric bus, with a range of 400km built by CaetanoBus in Portugal and featuring the Toyota fuel cell system

Hino Motors Ltd in June announced it had entered the Mongolian market with the opening of an authorized sales and service centre in the country’s capital city of Ulan Bator.

Hino Motors in July acquired all outstanding shares in its Argentinean distributor, Hino Motors Sales Argentina SA. The Buenos Aires-based company was subsequently renamed Hino Sales Argentina and became a consolidated subsidiary of the Japanese truck-making group.