Sustainable Truck&Van

🔋Battery circularity | Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited (CATL) sets strategic #partnership with Ellen MacArthur Foundation 🇨🇳 CATL will collaborate with the foundation to identify the #circulareconomy opportunity for the entire #battery value chain, and build an ecosystem of cross-industrial #partners to develop and implement a blueprint for battery #circularity ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eUys8zKE

👀 Italian e-bus manufacturer Rampini SpA will be making hydrogen fuel cell systems (also for trucks) ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eFrFQv35 Rampini has announced the establishment of a brand-new division called H2EUPower, specializing in a series of #hydrogen #fuelcell power system solutions in the #power range from 30 to 140 kilowatts for #commercialvehicles, off-highway and stationary applications. These products will be commercialized all over #Europe.

⚡MAN eTGX travels from #Lapland to #Munich using only public charging infrastructure ➡️ https://lnkd.in/efkwtY8D 🚛 The 3000-km tour comprises a total of seven stages. On average, the MAN eTGX covers between 400 and 600 km a day, depending on the route conditions and available #charging #infrastructure. It will also make a longer stop at the MAN Truck & Bus SE site in #Copenhagen to visit the service and sales team there. 

👤 Christopher Rimmele will become the new Head of Communications at Commercial Vehicles @ ZF 🔎 The new appointment will be effective starting May 1, 2025. Rimmele previously headed the Communications function at ZF LIFETEC: He will take over his new area of responsibility from Florian Laudan, who had continued to manage Commercial Vehicle Communications since becoming Head of ZF Group Communications in July 2024.

🔌Kempower’s Flex Satellite for public fast charging experience ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e4muqPgj Among the main features of the Flex Satellite is the dual-cable #satellite with DC input from the Kempower Power Unit, 400 A CCS1 + 380 A NACS Connectors, and CCS1 or NACS cable options for each #parking space at NEVI-funded or other public #charging sites.

💡Advanced #hydraulics for Revolt Motors’s extended-range electric trucks (ERETs) ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eUTkciSk Through Flodraulic, ReVolt is also sourcing advanced components from Danfoss Editron for the trucks’ complex power systems. Indeed, state-of-the-art #generators, #inverters, and controllers from Danfoss Editron will now equip ReVolt's #hybrid trucks. These components "are essential to the systems that convert mechanical energy from the combustion #engine into electricity to charge the #battery".

🧊 DB Schenker terminates winter tests of two FUSO #eCanter trucks in #Finland ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epy6Qd4B According to the #logistics company, the vehicles proved that they were up to the task even in tough Finnish #winters. The #trucks were shown to be reliable at temperatures as low as -30°C, conditions prevalent in #Lapland near the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland.

The TRATON GROUP signs strategic partnership on vehicle software development The #partnership with Silicon Valley-based vehicle software supplier Applied Intuition offers a scalable, extensible and modular vehicle OS to develop #software faster, as well as #AI-powered tooling for the development and validation of full vehicle software ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eCgNwyFN

⚡E-mobility | FLEXIS S.A.S signs MoU with charging operator Prologis Mobility Through this partnership, Flexis and Prologis Mobility customers will have access to #charging and #infrastructure planning #expertise, whether at a Prologis site or their own facilities, to help ensure their #fleets are operational from day one ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eJCfBSug

👤 ZF, Rolf Breidenbach is the new Supervisory Board #Chairman ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eKtHyEbz Former Chairman Hiesinger had indicated at an early stage to the then-newly elected Lord Mayor of Friedrichshafen, Blümcke, that he would not be available for a second term after March 2028. From early 2004 until 2022, Breidenbach was CEO of FORVIA HELLA, a global company in the #automotive #supply. ZF Group