Six people are believed to be dead and several injured after a postal bus went up in flames in Kerzers on Tuesday evening around 6:25 p.m. Police reported late Tuesday evening that the bus was completely destroyed and that the fire may have been deliberately set.

In eleven of Switzerland's largest cities, Swiss Post now uses only electric delivery vehicles. This means that half of its parcels are delivered using purely electric means. In total, over 1,800 electric vehicles are currently on the road, including 6,000 electric tricycles since 2017. The goal is to operate exclusively electric vehicles by 2030.

ZF Friedrichshafen, the technology group based on Lake Constance, is focusing on pursuing new projects with greater determination and terminating unproductive ones more quickly. This summarizes part of the restructuring of their electric drive division, several projects are to be terminated prematurely.

In addition to the 14 battery-electric eActros 600 trucks already delivered, Lidl Austria has signed a further framework agreement for 42 electric units, which are scheduled to go into operation by mid-2027. At the same time, Austria's most powerful dedicated truck charging network for the retail sector is being built.

A fuel cell system from Bosch, whose three developers Christoffer Uhr, Kai Weeber, and Pierre Andrieu were awarded the Future Prize for Technology and Innovation in Berlin on Wednesday evening , weighs around 4 tons less than a comparable battery-electric drive system. A decisive advantage.

Amidst the discussion about new drive systems, it's easy to forget that there are other vehicle components that also contribute significantly to reducing CO2 emissions. Tire manufacturer Goodyear offers up to 13% lower rolling resistance with its " Kmax Gen-3 " .

«Apollo Go» is not a continuation of the space mission that took the US space agency NASA to the moon in the 1960s , but a Chinese company with whose help the PostBus division of the Swiss Post plans to test automated driving in four cantons soon.

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) aims to improve safety during the market ramp-up of autonomous driving with a digital infrastructure, sensors on traffic lights, streetlights and buildings, so-called edge computers, and a project called "Managed Automated Driving" (MAD). Some aspects are already known.

Despite all the political turmoil currently shaking the world, work on the ITER fusion reactor, in which numerous nations are involved, continues – similar to the work on the ISS. Another of the 15-meter-high segments for the future plasma chamber was recently delivered by heavy transport. 

 The Swiss Commercial Vehicle Association and GS1 Switzerland are combining their initiatives "Lean & Green" and "We go green!". Both ASTAG and GS1 base their approach on sustainability as a triad encompassing the economy, society, and the environment.

In Switzerland, a total of 18,589 new vans, trucks, and transport vehicles were put into service in the first half of the year – a significant decrease compared to 22,440 vehicles in the same period last year. However, 17.2% of all newly registered vehicles over 3.5 tons are fully electric – a new record high.

Tour of Austria cycling race, is deploying a fully electric truck. The Mercedes eActros 600 is part of a new fleet of electric trucks with which the company is gradually decarbonizing its transport operations in Austria.

Peter Schafleitner (56), an experienced logistics expert, is moving into the top management level of the logistics service provider Gebrüder Weiss. He succeeds Peter Kloiber (64), who is retiring after 28 years.

CVS engineering from Rheinfelden is launching an energy-efficient solution for the rapid stationary unloading of silo trucks. The advantage: no truck engine or compressor needs to run during the unloading of grain, sugar, flour, cement, lime, PVC granules, soda, or animal feed.

For over a year, SPAR in St. Gallen has been using a biogas-powered semi-trailer truck to supply its branches and TopCC markets. The vehicle proved so successful in its first year of operation that the fleet will soon be expanded with eight more of these CNG commercial vehicles.