Commercial and Off-highway Vechicles Market
Electric Vehicles have been penetrating the passenger vehicle market significantly, but what is the story for Commercial and Off-Highway Vehicles (COHV)? Motivations and incentives are different in this sector where latest-and-greatest pales in comparison to ROI. Within PTR’s e-Mobility segment, Commercial & Off-Highway Vehicles service has been designed to look deeper into six major segments of the commercial and off-highway vehicles market: Trucks, Buses, Lightweight Commercial Vehicles, Construction Vehicles, Agricultural Vehicles and Forklifts (Industrial Trucks).
General Motors to open two battery plants in U.S.
General Motors will open two battery plants in the U.S. to support increasing electric and autonomous vehicle production. The announcements came as GM's rival Ford said its entire Lincoln luxury brand lineup would be electric or gas-electric hybrid by 2030, including...
School district transportation company Zūm wants to use its electric school buses to send power back to grid
Zūm is the industry leader in child transportation for school districts based in California, U.S. The startup provides child transportation for school districts and families, and is aiming to use its fleet of electric school buses to deliver power back to the...
LeasePlan orders 3,000 Arrival electric vans
LeasePlan, one of the world's largest Vehicle leasing company, has recently stated initiatives for commissioning Arrival to build 3000 electric vans. This procurment of battery electric vans is to be embedded in a partnership under which LeasePlan will be declared the...
BYD North America govt. funding for bus fleet electrification stopped
BYD North America is one of the two major players in the transportation industry present within the United States, the other being California-based Proterra Inc. With President Biden's call for fleet electrification throughout the country in motion, BYD North America...
VB beer deliveries go green with Volvo electric truck
Iconic Australian beer brand Victoria Bitter is now procuring zero-emissions Volvo FL electric trucks. Newly-introduced Victoria Bitter’s green trucking company Linfox will use the Volvo electric truck to transport more than 100,000 cans of the liquid amber brew from...
Sweden & Spain placing large orders for Electric Buses, ADL BYD partnership producing its 500th Electric Bus and confirming the next 500
Spain ordering 30 E-buses signifies the growing trend and dedication towards the Madrid 360 initiative, taking into account that the order is the largest in Spain's history. With 2.25% of bus fleets comprising of Electric buses, Spain plans on eliminating diesel...
SEA Electric has announced the launch of volume production of its first locally-assembled electric trucks
SEA Electric is a Melbourne-based electric truck company that has announced the launch of SEA 300 and SEA 500. Previously, the eight-year old company has constructed electric trucks for custom applications for customers both in Australia and overseas by retrofitting...
City of London Corporation to run fully electric refuse truck fleet
The City of London Corporation claims that it will become the first UK local authority to run a fully electric fleet of refuse trucks. Five new electric refuse trucks arrived at the City of London Corporation this week. These zero-emission electric recycling and waste...
FedEx is going all-electric
FedEx is converting its entire parcel pickup and delivery fleet fully electric by 2040. The company has planned to invest $2 billion into vehicle electrification. FedEx is planning to replace existing vehicles into fully electric vehicles over the next 19 years....
Solaris Urbino electric buses currently being tested by carriers in various Norwegian towns and cities
Solariss newest zero-emission electric bus is currently being tested by carriers in various Norwegian towns and cities. The bus, unveiled in October last year, have started being tested and these tests are expected to be completed by the end of March. These electric...
Qatar Free Zones will see production of 1,500 electric buses within seven years from the end of 2022
Last year, Qatar Free Zones Authority (QFZA) signed a multilateral framework agreement with Yutong, one of the world's largest bus and coach suppliers and Mowasalat to manufacture electric buses in the Free Zones. Free zones are areas within Qatar which are...
Canadas Lion Electric wins order for electric school buses
Lion Electric has received an order from Autobus Séguin, a transportation operator headquartered in Quebec. They have ordered 60 electric school buses to arrive in the next five years. According to Autobus Séguin Ultimately, our ambition is to electrify our entire...
GM to invest $800 million to convert existing facility into Canadas first large-scale commercial EV plant
General Motors plans to bring production of its recently announced BrightDrop electric light commercial vehicle, the EV600. The nearly $800 million (C$1 billion) investment will support GMs timing to deliver BrightDrop EV600 in late 2021. The investment will enable...
Scania commits to battery electric vehicles and rules out hyrogen fuel cell for long distance transport
Fully electric trucks and plug-in hybrid trucks have already been launched by Scania. However, Scania plans to launch long-distance electric trucks that will be able to carry a total weight of 40 tonnes for 4.5 hours. The truck has fast charging option which can be...
Volvo’s first electric truck reaches Australian shores
The first Volvo FL Electric truck reaches Australian shores from Swedens Volvo Trucks. These trucks have been developed by Volvo for distribution, refuse handling, and other urban transport applications. The two-axle FL Electric truck boasts a gross vehicle weight...
Lion Electric to supply electric trucks to Amazon
According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Quebec-Based Lion Electric has agreed to supply Amazon with up to 2,500 trucks by 2030. The company will be providing all-electric Lion 6 and Lion 8 electric trucks to Amazon. Lion Electric is...
Electric buses to provide public transport in Lahore
Chief Minister Punjab issued instructions for expediting electric bus operations in Lahore. These electric buses would run on six routes in the city, covering 106km. The Lahore Transport Company will be transformed into Punjab Transport Company with transport...
Electric buses manufactured in Poland take over the European electric bus market
Poland is one of the largest electric bus manufacturing countries in Europe. The manufacturing of electric buses is continuously growing as companies such as Germany's MAN Truck and Bus recently launched production in Poland. "MAN's new investment strongly enhances...
DHL adds BYD electric trucks to its fleet
DHL is adding four BYD Class 8 electric trucks into its fleet. DHL will be using these trucks in the Los Angeles metro area. Chinese automaker BYD has its truck and bus factory in California. CEO of DHL Express said that implemention of these electric trucks will...
Lion Electric and Nuvve Corporation partner to provide Vehicle-to-Grid enabled electric school buses and trucks
Nuvve Corporation is a San Diego-based green energy technology company and the global leader in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. Lion Electric recently announced their plans on launching vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. In collaboration with Nuvve Corporation, Lion...
Lion Electric orders bus batteries from US battery manufacturer Romeo Power
US battery manufacturer Romeo Power has received $234 million order from Canadian e-commercial vehicle manufacturer Lion Electric. Romeo will supply battery modules and packs for Lion Electrics electric trucks and electric buses. This is the largest order Romeo Power...
Solaris to build another 100 electric buses for Milan-based public transport operator
ATM, Milan-based public transport operator, will be receiving another 100 electric buses from Solaris. This order is based on the agreement made last year. Under this agreement, Solaris will be providing 250 electric buses to ATM. The first 40 buses has already been...
Navistar and Cummins to develop Class 8 hydrogen-fuel cell powered truck in a joint project
Both, Navistar and Cummins, will work together on the development of hydrogen powered Class 8 electric truck. The project is funded by the U.S. Department of Energys (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). $7 million is awarded for the...
Volvo’s electric bus market share continues to strengthen in Europe
Over the past few years, Volvo has received large number of orders from number of cities throughout Europe. Lodz in Poland, Den Bosch in The Netherlands, Bodö and Ålesund in Norway, Aarhus in Denmark, Gothenburg and Malmö in Sweden and Luxemburg are some of these...
Munich’s first fully electric bus line
Munich is also now a part of the many cities in Europe which have atleast one fully electric bus line. Munich Traffic Association (MVG) inaugurated line #144 on which will run eight 12-meter Ebusco 2.2 city buses. These fully electric buses will be able to travel 300...
Diamler and Volvo to develop, produce and commercialise fuel-cell systems for heavy-duty trucks
A joint venture between Diamler and Volvo aims at development, production and commercialization of fuel-cell systems for heavy-duty trucks. As part of this joint project, Volvo Group will acquire 50% of the partnership interest in Daimler Truck Fuel Cell GmbH & Co. It...
Ford to unveil its electric transit delivery van next month
Ford is going to unveil all-electric version of its popular transit delivery van, named E-Transit, on 12th of next month. Ford is expected to unveil van's battery pack size, range of the van and other specifications. Range of the van is going to get a lot of attention...
EGV to invest $4 Billion in Pakistan
EGV is a European Electric Bus Manufacturing Company. Minister of Science and Technology and CEO of EGV has recently signed an MoU. The minister told the media that the stated european manufacturer will invest $4 billion to set up an electric bus manufacturing plant...
Virginia’s first electric school bus unveiled
The first electric school buses in the commonwealth will start operating from next month. This electric bus is introduced by Dominion Energys Electric School Bus Program and Sonny Merryman, a Campbell County-based school and commercial bus company. Dominion Energys...
Daimler and Waymo join hands to manufacture fully driverless semi trucks
Diamler is the the parent company of Mercedes-Benz. Waymo and Daimler have recently announced that they are forming a broad, global, strategic partnership to deploy fully driverless trucks. Waymos autonomous driving technology is widely considered to be among the...