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Daimler Truck has reported a strong start to 2023, with unit sales and revenue significantly above the prior year’s quarter. In Q1 2023, the company sold 125,172 units, a 15% increase from the same period last year, while revenue rose by 25% to €13.2 billion. The bus business is delivering a particu...

German Federal Minister Volker Wissing has granted €7.3 million in funding for hydrogen projects in the Rheinische Revier region. The funding will go towards the construction of a hydrogen refuelling station and an electrolyser at RVK Mechernich site (60 km from Cologne and Bonn). Both projects were...

A manual ramp and an electrically operated ramp for access to buses: two devices in one single product. HÜBNER has developed a hybrid system that makes it easier for disabled persons to board buses. The new module combines an electric and a manual ramp in one unit. The first 250 double ramps have be...

BorgWarner announces it has been selected by a “global power technology leader” to supply battery packs for a series of electric buses. BorgWarner will provide a pair of standardized ultra-high energy packs and a battery management system that the company will integrate into its electrif...

Proterra has appointed David Black, a public company finance executive with more than 30 years’ experience in public corporate accounting and finance leadership, as new Chief Financial Officer, effective May 16, 2023. He joins the previously named new CIO (Chief Information Officer) Dustin Goodwin, ...

After announcing that the Egyptian company MCV (Manufacturing Commercial Vehicles) will produce bodyworks for its electric buses for the European market, Volvo Buses has announced that it has placed a bet on the Spanish company Sunsundegui – a historic partner – for the production of bod...

MAN Truck & Bus has delivered six electric articulated e-buses to Stadtwerke Tübingen. The MAN Lion’s City 18 E are the first fully electric articulated buses to be operated by the carrier TüBus. And other four fully electric MAN buses in the 12-metre variant are to be put into operation at TüBu...

Rebus Regionalbus Rostock, a transportation company based in Güstrow, Germany, has placed an order for 52 Solaris Urbino hydrogen buses. The order includes five articulated models and represents the largest single order for hydrogen fuel cell vehicles from Solaris to date. The contract, announced on...

At the Advanced Clean Transportation (ACT) Expo, ZF premiered its all-new AxTrax 2 electric axle platform. Series production of AxTrax 2 is planned to begin in Europe in late 2024 and in the U.S. in 2025, ZF states. What is very interesting, it will be offered in two variants: AxTrax 2 with one e-dr...

ACT Expo 2023 has officially started in Anaheim yesterday, May 1, and will last until May 4 at the brand-new location in Anaheim, California. As stated by the organizers and reported on Sustainable Truck&Van, ACT Expo has experienced “unprecedented year-over-year growth with more than ...