The new Xcient has top of the range Isringhausen seats and front-axle air suspension.

Hyundai Motor Company has signed a distribution agreement for its Elec City battery-powered buses with an agency in Indonesia.

The ‘Open Platform for Autonomy’ (OPA) is a modular software platform intended to support would-be developers of semi- and fully-autonomous vehicles and subsystems.

Gillig has apparently bought the former Lightning eMotors site in Loveland, Colorado, and it will retain some of the company's engineers in order to turn it into a dedicated electric powertrain technology hub. 

The new headquarters and production facility represent an investment of more than USD37m.

The joint venture facility will grow quickly over the next several years, with the aim of recycling one million metric tons of vehicle tyre material by 2030, representing a third of all end-of-life tyres in Europe. 

He replaces Pipasu Soni, who will leave the company to “pursue other opportunities”.

Before joining Bendix, Stroka was a member of the Knorr-Bremse management board since 2020 where he was responsible for the European CVS division.

Hino's shareholding is to be cut from 50% to 4.83% in GAC Hino Motors Company Ltd, with a 39.72% stake being transferred to Guangzhou Automobile Group.

LG Energy Solution Ltd is to supply 200,000 battery cell modules over a three-year period to Impact Clean Power Technology (ICPT) for heavy-duty battery systems in commercial vehicles and other transportation vehicles.

They will join a fleet of 84 electric buses already delivered or on order from Wrightbus to Arriva London last year.

Another city in Brazil, this time a city with hot temperatures of up to 41 deg. C, Cuiabá of Mato Grosso State, has begun testing China’s Higer electric 12m low floor bus, the Azure A12BR e-bus.