Industry and member news

• SEA Electric excels with order for 1,150 new trucks 

  SEA Electric (Los Angeles, California) has taken a significant step forward in the USA, with confirmation of an order for over 1,000 SEA Hino M5 EVs, the single largest order in the company’s history.

• Hino Trucks delivers first Cummins-powered truck to Penske Truck Leasing 

  Earlier this year, Hino Trucks (Novi, Michigan) announced their intent to produce medium- and heavy-duty Hino trucks with Cummins engines for sale in North America by the end of 2021. This month, Hino delivered the first of these vehicles to Penske.

• Zeus Electric Chassis and JB Poindexter’s EAVX collaborate on electric work trucks 

  Zeus Electric Chassis, Inc. (Minneapolis, Minnesota) and EAVX (Houston, Texas) announced that they will join forces to develop and commercialize innovative and industry-leading all-electric vocational work truck solutions.

• Demers Ambulances and Lion Electric launch all-electric, purpose-built ambulance 

  Demers Ambulances (Beloeil, QC) and Lion Electric Company (McClellan, California) unveiled the Demers eFX Ambulance, the first all-electric and purpose-built ambulance.

• Isuzu collaborates with Decisiv to enhance customer experience 

  Isuzu Commercial Truck of America, Inc. (Anaheim, California) confirmed a long term collaboration with Decisiv, the industry-leading provider of dealer Service Relationship Management (SRM) software.

• Ford jolts auto industry with $11.4 billion investment in new electric vehicle, battery plants 

  Ford (Dearborn, Michigan) gave the auto industry a jolt with word that it plans to spend $11.4 billion on new production sites in Tennessee and Kentucky where it plans to build electric pickup trucks and cars.

• Registration and housing open for Work Truck Week 2022 in Indianapolis 

  Registration and housing are now open for Work Truck Week® 2022, North America’s largest work truck event, returning to Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Safe Fleet releases Prime Design™ Cantilever Fold-Up Shelving & Modular Sliding Partitions 

  Prime Design, a Safe Fleet brand, (W. St. Paul, Minnesota) is pleased to introduce Cantilever Fold-Up Shelving and Modular Sliding Partitions to meet the rising demands of the “Final Mile” or parcel delivery segment.

• Eaton adds to concentric pneumatic clutch actuators to aftermarket portfolio 

  Eaton (Galesburg, Michigan) announced its Vehicle Group has introduced two new concentric pneumatic clutch actuators (CPCAs), designed for commercial vehicle push-type diaphragm spring clutches.

• International Truck launches newly designed MV™ Series 

  nternational Truck (Lisle, Illinois) launched of the new International® MV™ Series. This is the next generation of International’s medium-duty vehicles, reimagined from the ground up to advance performance, safety and uptime.