Commercial Vehicles

Leading rating and research firm ICRA foresees electric buses (e-buses) to be at the forefront of India’s electrification drive, with the segment expected to witness healthy traction going forward. ICRA estimates e-...

Gagandeep Singh Gandhok, Senior Vice President, Heavy Duty Trucks, Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles is very upbeat about the prospects of Eicher trucks in the Indian domestic market. Roy Punnoose Tharyan of Motown I...

Eicher Trucks & Buses, a business unit of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, announced the launch of the Eicher Non-Stop Series, a new range of heavy duty trucks meticulously designed for the fast evolving long haul tr...

Ashok Leyland has commenced the delivery of India’s first LNG-powered haulage truck - AVTR 1922 to Mahanagar Gas Limited in Hosur. This is a significant step from Ashok Leyland towards a sustainable and eco-friendly...

PPS Motors, a part of the largest automotive dealership group, is delivering nearly 300 BharatBenz buses to the Odisha Government as part of the Location Accessible Multimodal Initiative (LAccMI). Chief Minister Nav...

To indigenously develop hydrogen-fuelled, zero-emission propulsion systems at its R&D centre in Pune, Tata Motors unveiled two state-of-the-art and new-age R&D facilities for meeting its mission of offering sustaina...

JBM Electric Vehicles, India’s leading electric bus manufacturer launched its all-electric city bus - Ecolife and luxury coach – Galaxy at Bus World 2023. This also marks JBM Electric Vehicles’ foray into the Europe...

Eicher Trucks and Buses, a business division of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited strengthened its relationship with Safexpress, India’s largest logistics and supply chain organisation, offering express distribution, 3...

The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has approved a bus scheme “PM-eBus Sewa” for augmenting city bus operation by 10,000 e-buses on PPP model. The Scheme would have an estimated cost of Rs.57...

As a significant milestone, the My Eicher app has now gained more than 75,000 loyal customers since its launch in 2021, covering more than 200,000 Eicher trucks and buses.

Eicher Trucks and Buses, a business division of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited (VECV), has announced collaboration with Amazon to further enable the electrification of Amazon's middle-mile and last-mile delivery ope...

Vijayanand Travels (VT) has made a milestone announcement by placing the largest order in India for 550 Intercity buses from Volvo and Eicher.

FTI Consulting has released a multi-stakeholder report and road safety policy paper titled ‘Making Roads Safer in Indian Cities’, which prioritises adoption of road-safety related technology solutions in school buse...

Tresa Motors has unveiled its first electric truck, the Model V0.1, built on its groundbreaking Axial Flux Motor Platform: FLUX350.

Eicher Trucks & Buses, a business unit of VE Commercial Vehicles, announced its first deliveries against a prestigious order of 50 Eicher Intercity 13.5m AC sleeper buses to Vijayanand Travels Private Limited (VTPL)...

At Eicher Trucks & Buses, a business unit of VE Commercial Vehicles(VECV), the services are at par with car companies or to be more honest, even better. All this thanks to the VECV Uptime Centre situated in Pithampu...

Switch Mobility, a Hinduja Group company and the next-generation carbon neutral electric bus and light commercial vehicle manufacturer, has delivered six Switch Solo electric buses to Translink, Northern Ireland’s m...

PMI Electro Mobility, India's largest electric bus manufacturer and fleet operator, has achieved a significant milestone by becoming the first company to deliver electric buses in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, in i...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), a 100% subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG announced that - despite supply chain headwinds and adverse cost environment – 2022 was one of the most successful business years since...

Fresh Bus, a new-age intercity EV bus service announced the launch of its first electric bus fleet on the Bengaluru-Tirupati route.

India’s leading surface mobility brand, Zingbus, has partnered with the National Highways for Electric Vehicles (NHEV) an EoDB pilot initiative, for a joint e-mobility project aiming to help the private diesel bus o...

Eicher Trucks and Buses launched the all-new Pro2000 series of Light Duty Trucks in UAE and Middle East region. Eicher Pro2000 series, with a host of next-gen features, is aimed at significantly improving profitabil...

Volvo Buses India will be supplying 20 units of Volvo 9600 sleeper coaches to Karnataka State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC), making it the first STU to add these luxurious buses to their fleet. This is yet anot...

Eicher Trucks & Buses, a business unit of VE Commercial Vehicles has launched its latest campaign, ‘Nayi Soch Naye Raaste’, embodying Eicher brand's promise of partnering prosperity. The campaign underlines the rele...

EKA Mobility, an electric vehicles and technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, announced that it has received a letter of allotment (LoA) for the procurement, operation, and maintenance ...

Switch Mobility, a Hinduja Group company and the next-generation carbon neutral electric bus and light commercial vehicle manufacturer, delivered the first set of Switch EiV 22 to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Tr...

PMI Electro Mobility, India’s largest electric bus company, announced the delivery of its 1,000th electric bus, becoming the first company in the country to achieve this milestone. Delivered under the FAME II scheme...

JBM Auto launched India’s first completely designed and manufactured 100% electric luxury coach – JBM Galaxy at the Auto Expo- The Motor Show 2023.

VE Commercial Vehicles (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors Joint Venture) unveiled a range of future ready mobility solutions from the Eicher and Volvo brands at Auto Expo 2023. Under the banner of VECV’s vision of Sma...

Cummins Group in India, leading power solutions technology provider unveiled commercial vehicle industry’s first fuel agnostic platform and its diversified range of hydrogen technologies power solutions at Auto Expo...

Ashok Leyland, an Indian flagship of the Hinduja Group and the country’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, showcased seven advanced mobility solutions at the Auto Expo 2023.

EKA, an electric vehicles and technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, and NuPort Robotics, a Canadian autonomous trucking company, announced India’s first deployment of Level 2 autonomy ...

Switch Mobility, the next-generation carbon neutral electric bus and light commercial vehicle company, has partnered with JSW to introduce electric buses for employee transportation in India. This is the first signi...

Ashok Leyland, the flagship Company of the Hinduja Group and India’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer delivered 150 trucks and buses to the Tanzania Police Force.

Celebi India has taken another major step by introducing the first ever 100% electric air-conditioned tarmac coaches for passenger transportation in India at the Delhi International Airport.

Cummins Inc., a global power solutions and hydrogen technologies provider, and Tata Motors, the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in India, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on the desi...

Causis E-Mobility, a net zero emission mass transit company and a part of the Causis Group Ltd, London has bagged the mandate from KDMC. EuraBus, a berlin-based e-bus, a product of Causis E- Mobility will be seen pl...

Erisha E Mobility, part of Rana Group, has announced the launch of E- Superior electric cargo loader, E- Supreme electric delivery van and E- Smart electric passenger vehicle three-wheeler auto in L5 category includ...

PMI Electro Mobility, India's leading electric bus manufacturer and operator, announced that it is now the second largest electric bus brand in India with over 777 electric buses running across the country.

Eka Mobility, an electric vehicles and technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, has announced entering a collaboration, through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), with goEgoNetwork, Ind...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG (“Daimler Truck”) has launched a new BharatBenz Regional Training Centre (RTC) in Cuttack, Odisha.

Ashok Leyland’s electric vehicle arm, Switch Mobility Ltd (‘Switch’), the next-generation, carbon neutral electric bus and light commercial vehicle company, has unveiled India’s first and unique electric double-deck...

VE Commercial Vehicles unveiled the next generation Volvo and Eicher intercity buses at Prawaas 3.0 being held in Hyderabad on August 5 and 6. This is the third edition of India’s flagship bus and car travel show.

Tata Motors is presenting cutting-edge mass mobility solutions at Prawaas 3.0 scheduled from August 5 to 6, 2022 in Hyderabad. The company is exhibiting a robust product portfolio of passenger commercial vehicles ac...

Volvo Buses India, a division of Volvo Eicher (VE) Commercial Vehicles Limited, has launched the next-gen Volvo 9600 platform. For the company, it is a significant milestone in its over two-decade old India journey.

VE Commercial Vehicles Ltd. (A Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture) recorded sales of 5982 units in July 2022 as compared to 4271 units in July 2021 recording a growth of 40.1%. This includes 5861 units of E...

Ashok Leyland’s LCV vertical has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with Adani Capital Pvt Ltd to enter into a strategic financing partnership for its range of Light Commercial vehicles. This MoU will enabl...

Pinnacle Industries, India's only integrated commercial vehicle seating and interiors company offering end to end solutions for commercial vehicle OEMs across the ICE and EV space, has partnered with Cityflo, Mumbai...

Switch Mobility Ltd, the EV arm of Ashok Leyland and Optare of the UK, has launched its next-generation electric bus platform ‘Switch EiV 12’ for the Indian market. The company showcased two electric bus variants ...

Except for tractors, commercial vehicles comprising of 3 wheelers, trucks and buses showed a downward trend in retail sales in May 2022 as compared to month of May 2019, the year without the pandemic. This was accor...

Switch Mobility, the electric vehicle arm of Ashok Leyland will be launching an electric bus on June 14, 2022 in India at a press conference in Chennai in Tamil Nadu. Ashok Leyland is part of the Hinduja Group.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, celebrated the completion of 10 successful years of operations in India.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler Truck AG, announced its achievement of 48% growth in wholesales in 2021 by selling 14,222 trucks. The manufacturer of BharatBe...

Starting June 1, 2022, GreenCell Mobility,offering electric mobility as service platform, would run the first intercitye-bus for Maharashtra Regional State Transport (MSRTC) from the city.

Tummoc, India’s first multi-modal public transport app has recently achieved a new milestone by crossing half a million users mark on their app. The actual count of users on the app has gone up to 600K in a short sp...

Commercial vehicle manufacturers in the country continued to show steady progress in their domestic as well as exports for the month of April 2022

Pinnacle Industries, a leading manufacturer of automotive interiors, seating systems & EV components and speciality vehicles, has announced its foray into railway seating systems.

Michelin has become the first tyre brand in the country to be accredited with the recently introduced star labelling programme of Government of India which is aimed at improving sustainability and newly introduced p...

ChargeZone, a technology-driven EV charging network company has announced that it is powering 500+ electric buses through its nation-wide network of 125+ super fast DC points in cities such as Ahmedabad, Chandigarh,...

GreenCell Mobility has unveiled unveils NueGo, 1st pan-india intercity electric mobility coach brand. ‘NueGo’ is aimed at the new age traveler and is India’s first intercity electric mobility bus brand with initial ...

EKA, an electric vehicles and technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries Limited, has announced entering into a long-term strategic collaboration, initiated through a Memorandum of Understanding (MO...

EKA, an electric vehicle manufacturing & technology company, and a subsidiary of Pinnacle Industries, has launched a 9-metre pure electric and zero-emission bus, EKA E9. The E9, EKA’s first battery-electric bus, fea...

IntrCity, India's largest inter-city mobility brand, has partnered with Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV). They have joined hands to launch inter-city buses, pre-fitted with mobility operating system (OS) and...

Eicher Trucks and Buses in partnership with Phoenix Foundation has established the Phoenix-Eicher Institute of Driver Training and Research in Latur, Maharashtra to upskill driver fraternity in the state.

Volvo Buses India, a part of VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) has launched its first completely built sleeper coach. The 15m sleeper coach has been developed on the Volvo B11R chassis. The first eight coaches will be d...

Eicher Trucks & Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, completed the 315th vehicle delivery to KNR Constructions Limited. The company bagged an order of 130 vehicles from the Hyderabad-based infrastructure m...

Trucks and buses account for a large part of CO2 emissions from the transport sector in Europe. Reducing emissions is one of the major challenges if the Paris Agreement target is to be met, and most agree that elect...

BYD India, a subsidiary of the Warren Buffett-backed EV maker BYD, has announced the launch of the all-new e6, which will be available for the Indian B2B segment.

Commercial Vehicle segment the company has unveiled seven new vehicles across Construck, Tractor-Trailer and Rigid truck range with higher fuel efficiency.

VE Commercial Vehicles Limited has launched an all-new industry-defining Coach & Sleeper bus range. The custom-developed buses designed and built in Volvo Buses India’s factory in Hosakote on high performance front...

Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus Corporation (MFTBC), one of Asia’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturers, cooperating with Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt. Ltd. (DICV) under the umbrella of Daimler Trucks Asi...

Tata Motors has delivered 35 state-of-the-art Starbus electric buses, as a part of the larger order of 340 electric buses to Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).

VE Commercial Vehicles (VECV) delivered 50 units of the 24-seater Eicher CNG AC Buses to Pune Mahanagar Parivahan Mahamandal Limited (PMPML). These buses were flagged off by Devendra Fadnavis and Maharashtra BJP pre...

Omega Seiki Mobility, part of the Rs 1000 crore plus Anglian Omega Group will soon be making electric four wheelers and two wheelers in India with foreign collaborations. The company which showcased a few cargo elec...

Fifty-eight-year-old Dr Andy Palmer, former CEO of UK luxury car company Aston Martin Lagonda has been appointed Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Switch Mobility Ltd, the new electrified commer...

Tyre major Apollo Tyres has introduced a breakthrough product in cross-ply technology. The launch of Apollo Abhimanyu, a cross-ply rib tyre for steer axles in CVs, will help the company capitalise on the upsurge in ...

Eicher Trucks & Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, participated actively in the National Road Safety month from January 18, 2021 till February 17, 2021 across the country.

Eicher Trucks & Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, completed the 200th vehicle delivery to Apco Infratech Pvt. Ltd.

Eicher Trucks & Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, completed the 200th vehicle delivery to Apco Infratech Pvt Ltd. The company executed an order of 200 tippers and trucks from the Lucknow-based infrastru...

VECV, joint venture between Eicher Motors and Volvo of Sweden, will be acquiring Volvo Buses India for a sum of Rs 100 crore. Definitive Agreements have been signed for the integration of Volvo Buses India business ...

Technology company Continental has developed a radar-based turn assist system that fleet operators can easily retrofit to their heavy-duty commercial vehicles. RightViu has received the General Operating Permit (GOP...

Just before India declared a lockdown in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV), Daimler’s commercial vehicle subsidiary in India completed a major order with the delivery of ...

Tata Motors Limited recorded a massive (-) 87 per cent fall in sales of commercial vehicles for the month of March 2020 at a mere 7123 units in March 2020 as compared to 56,536 units for March 2019. As for the finan...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal flagged off 100 low floor air-conditioned JBM Citylife city buses run on CNG from the Rajghat Bus Depot in the Capital city. This low floor CNG AC bus service has been rolled ou...

Leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, (VECV) has unveiled its entire BS-VI range of trucks and buses across 4.9- 55T tagged with Eicher’s innovative BSVI solution -EUTECH6 which of...

Harigo EngiWork has put the first step forward to launch tarmac electric buses for SpiceJet at Chennai airport in the presence of Ajay Singh CMD, SpiceJet and Suriya (Indian film actor), besides SpiceJet and Harig...

Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping and MSME unveiled Olectra-BYD C9 - electric inter-city coach, the first in the country, during the ongoing Auto Expo at Greater Noida in the presence o...

JBM Auto Ltd, a commercial vehicle player in India, launched Eco-Life e9 electric bus at the Auto Expo 2020. The bus was launched by S.K. Arya, Chairman, JBM Group and Nishant Arya, Executive Director, JBM Group. E...

JBM Auto (P) Ltd, a leading commercial vehicle player in the e-mobility space, will be launching two of their offerings, Ecolife and Citylife buses on February 5, 2020 during the Auto Expo- The Motor Show 2020 at Ha...

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) showcased its all-new range of BharatBenz vehicles. On display were over a dozen medium and heavy duty trucks, and buses updated inside and out. The new product portfolio, co...

The largest construction equipment exhibition in South Asia, Excon 2019, was held in Bengaluru from December 10 to 14. This was the 10th edition of the show. The five-day event was inaugurated by Nitin Gadkari, Unio...

This is the story about Reena Barak who has successfully completed her training for driving heavy motor vehicles at the Institute of Driving & Traffic Research (IDTR) at Bahadurgarh in the state of Haryana.

For the first time ever, customers in Australia and New Zealand will soon be able to drive the new Freightliner Cascadia (Class 8, >15 t perm GVW) in their respective countries.

BYD Auto Industry Company Limited, among the largest manufacturers in the world for pure electric vehicles including electric buses, has entered into a collaboration with ETO Motors, an electric fleet operator where...

India’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland, flagship of the Hinduja Group showcased its wide range of Bharat Stage (BS) VI trucks and buses.

Force Traveller Smart Citibus was inducted into the BEST fleet for Mumbai commuters from metro and local stations.

An Eicher truck was always referred to as Mileage ka Badshah but now it is known as Business ka Badshah, or King of Business. This tag came after the Volvo Eicher Commercial Vehicles (VECV) launched the Pro 2000 ser...

The domestic sales of Ashok Leyland trucks dropped by 29 per cent in July 2019 to 10101 units as compared to 14205 units in July 2018. The medium and heavy commercial vehicle trucks sales stood at 4668 units in June...

Eicher Trucks and Buses, part of VE Commercial Vehicles Limited, showcased its latest range, including the newly introduced Eicher 3009LSkyline Pro Staff AC Bus and Eicher 20.15R 12m bus chassis at the second editio...

In order to boost the buying and use of electric vehicles in the commercial vehicle as well as private passenger vehicle segments, the government is proposing to hike the fees for issue and renewal of registration o...