Articles by Jon Thomson

Daimler’s unveiling of its heavy duty eActros prime mover at the Hannover IAA was an exciting and impressive step forward for the World’s biggest turn maker and came  just over a month after T&B news […]

The NHVR has announced it has  received  what it describes as ‘critical’ funding for  fifteen industry-led projects as part of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator’s (NHVR) Heavy Vehicle Safety Initiative (HVSI),  through the Federal Government. […]

SEA Electric has announced that it will be doubling the size of  its local assembly facility taking its annual production capacity to a potential annual rate of more than 2000 electric trucks. The company says it will see […]

The IAA at Hannover  traditionally is the platform every two years  for the announcement  of the International Truck of the Year awards, which are judged by a panel of European commercial vehicle journalists. The Truck […]

Collaboration appears to be the way Iveco will navigate its way toward a zero emission future, with the Italian brand revealing at the IAA 2022 in Hannover this week, some key alignments with both Nikola […]

The headline on Scania’s press  release for IAA 2022,  read ‘Scania decarbonises  heavy transport’ in what seemed to be a sort of declaration that  the Traton-owned brand was going to  save the planet almost single […]

The apparent problem child  of the Traton family of truck brands, MAN  declared at the IAA in Hannover this week, that the decarbonisation of freight transport, the digitalisation of logistics and the worsening shortage of […]

Daimler has made a clear statement of its zero emission intentions at this year’s IAA  Transportation Expo in Hannover, but unlike its rival and hydrogen fuel cell joint venture partner Volvo, Daimler did have some  […]