Hamburg is to begin test operation of an autonomous passenger shuttle in August.

Electric bus builder, Ebusco is to supply 60 Ebusco 2.2 12m vehicles to bus operator, Qbuzz for operation in Groningen and Drenthe by the end of 2019.

The Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant is preparing to enter a new market segment with its launch of the MZKT-730240 terminal tractor truck.

Allison Transmission Inc has celebrated assembly of its 250,000th fully automatic transmission at its factory at Szentgotthárd.

According to LLC Avtostat Info, in the first half of 2019 Russia registered 6,489 new buses with gross vehicle weights of 6 tonnes and above, which was 8.3% down on 7,077 units registered in the same period of 2017.

According to statistics collated by LLC Avtostat Info, 38,844 new medium and heavy-duty trucks were registered in Russia in the first half of 2019; a decrease of 6.4% on 37,212 units registered in the same period of 2018.

Akia Avesto Automotive Industry LLC announced at Busworld Central Asia that in June this year it had inaugurated a bus factory in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Iveco Latin America Ltda of Sete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, (a subsidiary of CNH Industrial), has exported 40, 170S28-type bus chassis to Peru: Ten chassis are to be used by Andrea Express in Piurra and 30 by ET Salvador in Lima.

Teojama Comercial S.A., the main distributor of the Hino truck and bus brand in Ecuador, has delivered a new bus fleet of 53 Hino AK 8JRSA buses to Ecuadorian public transport cooperatives, Tomebamba and Turismo Baños, in the city of Cuenca.

Belkommunmash, a producer of trams, trolleybuses and more recently low floor full electric buses, used the inaugural Busworld Central Asia exhibition in Almaty, Kazakhstan to display two scale-models of its electric buses.

Scania do Brasil Ltda has sold 300 New Generation model trucks to G10, a buying and operational consortium of transport operators, which is based in Maringá.

The Chilean Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications has confirmed an order for 183 BYD pure electric buses for operation in the capital of Santiago.