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A combination of government funds with investment from local authorities and operators is the UK’s approach to the zero emissions transition. However, ensuring patronage is the key to long term viability

More than two hundred electric buses signed Karsan will be running on the streets of Romania by the end of 2023. Yes, because the Turkish manufacturer has won two tenders to deliver a total of 20 e-Jest models: 18 for the city of Aiud and four for Siret. The Karsan e-Jest, which will be the [&hellip...

China: in January 2023, the registration of new energy commercial vehicles experienced a decline of 19% from the same period last year. This marked the first year-on-year drop since February 2021 (and follows a records-beating December 2022). Figures and considerations are reported in a paper by Int...

Transdev Group has completed the acquisition of First Transit, one of the largest private-sector operators of mobility solutions in North America. After receiving all necessary regulatory approvals in the U.S. and in Canada, Transdev and First Transit now officially form part of the same company.&nb...

The first of the new generation of trams, ordered in April 2021 by Carris, is ready and about to be delivered to Lisbon. Carris is the operator of the public transport network in Lisbon, Portugal’s capital city of 545,000 inhabitants, has decided to renew its tram fleet, choosing the five-modu...

Regiobus has ordered 15 battery-electric buses, thus beginning the transition of the fleet towards zero emission technology. The operator has turned to EvoBus and is then going to deploy 15 units of Mercedes eCitaro. Since 2020, regiobus has exclusively procured so-called mild hybrid buses; in paral...

Below, a contribution by Antonio Augusto Fernandes, Professor Emeritus, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering (aaf@fe.up.pt)Picture caption: Feup eCoach interior design (Registered as a Community Design, with the Nº 008640346-0001, at the European Union Intellectual Property Office ) The deman...

Below, a contribution from ZEBRA (Zero Emission Bus Rapid-deployment Accelerator), a partnership led by C40 Cities and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), with funding from ClimateWorks. This international alliance works to support the deployment of over 3,000 electric buses on...

Solaris will deliver 100 Urbino 12 hybrid buses to Cagliari, the Sardinian capital. The contract is part of a framework agreement signed in 2021 with joint-stock company Consip owned by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF). Under that agreeme...

VDV pushes for a much stronger commitment of the federal government to the promotion of e-buses in order to achieve climate-protection goals. “We must make the remaining years until 2030 the decade of the e-bus, because the infrastructure projects for railways and light rail only take effect w...