AKASOL AG has signed a strategically important framework agreement with a major bus and commercial vehicle manufacturer from Belgium with a total volume in the mid-double-digit million euro range. The Company will supply the second and third generation of its high-energy battery systems for the customer’s new all-electric city bus starting in 2021 until 2026 and thus expand its customer portfolio.
Volta Trucks, a leading and disruptive full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider, has issued a guarded welcome to the publication of the UK Government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, but has called for a greater level of ambition to tackle the climate and air quality emergency faced by the environment.
Once UN regulations UN R155 and UN R156 come into force, which is soon, OEMs will be required to permanently protect their vehicle fleets from cyberattacks. An intrusion detection and prevention solution (IDPS) makes just this kind of continuous risk management possible – with an intrusion detection system for detecting in-vehicle attacks, a vehicle security operations center for fleet-wide monitoring, and a security-compliant software update management system.
A specialist body builder, which develops off-road and all-wheel buses based on an all-wheel drive truck chassis, has adopted Allison Automatics across its product range to facilitate better off-road traction and drivability.
Siemens has been awarded a contract from the Zurich Public Transport Authority (VBZ) to supply, install and commission 45 eBus charging stations, type Sicharge UC.
Collaboration enables mutual customers to easily adopt the integrated Cadence digital full flow, which offers leading implementation and signoff technology for ultra-low power designs.
Congatec – a leading vendor of embedded and edge computing technology – introduces new 11th Gen Intel® Core® processor based Computer-on-Modules with soldered RAM for highest shock and vibration resistance.