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Ford Trucks tackles Europe
Ford Trucks is tangibly demonstrating its intention to conquer the lucrative European truck market with a European tour for the F-Max, the 2019 International...
MAN wins design awards
MAN Truck & Bus has received not one, but two sought-after iF Design Awards. The first accolade, the iF Design Award 2019 in the...
Bauma 2019: just brilliant!
Bauma 2019 smashed all its records – from the number of visitors to the floor space occupied. I braved the crowds (and, believe me,...
Revealed: the world’s longest BRT system
Busworld South East Asia took place in Jakarta last month and it was interesting to discover that one of its exhibitors runs the longest...
Scania to pioneer full-length autonomous buses in Sweden
Scania and Nobina, the largest public-transport operator in the Nordic countries, will start trials of autonomous buses on regular routes in the Stockholm area...
Van drivers break the law (and maybe their necks too)
More than half of van drivers in the United Kingdom (UK) have admitted to making calls behind the wheel without using a hands-free device....
First Volvo e-trucks delivered to customers
Last year, I drove Volvo’s new electric trucks and now the first units have been delivered to customers! The vehicles in question are a...
Nissan puts I2V technology to the test
Nissan is testing Invisible-to-Visible (I2V) technology, which helps drivers “see the invisible” – such as what’s farther down the road, behind a building or...
Daimler ditches platooning!
Incredibly, after years of hoo-ha surrounding the topic of platooning, the concept has been ditched by the world’s biggest manufacturer of commercial vehicles! This revelation came...
Daimler spends €20 billion on battery cells
Daimler has gone on a shopping spree, ordering battery cells to the value of a whopping €20 billion (about R324 billion). The orders will...
MAN hits the water!
FOCUS readers associate MAN with vans, trucks and buses. However, the company is now also focusing on the Asian luxury yacht market. Specifically, it...
Volvo’s Nilsson retires
Claes Nilsson, executive vice president of the Volvo Group and president of Volvo Trucks, has announced his retirement. Nilsson has visited South Africa many...
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