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A new flagship project for global electric mobility. UITP announces the launch of eBRT2030, the new European Union initiative that aims to support sustainable urban transport by proposing innovative solutions for electric Bus Rapid Transit. Coordinated directly by UITP, EBRT2030 was presented in Bru...

Arrival appoints Igor Torgov as new CEO and announces immediate actions to further reduce its operating costs and to optimize the deployment of its current cash resources. This includes the decision to reduce its global workforce by approximately 50% to 800 employees (up compared to the previously d...

The US e-bus market experienced a 66% increase since 2021. As of September 2022, the total count of full-size battery-electric and fuel-cell electric transit buses has reached 5,480 (it was 3,297 in 2021). The data is reported on CALSTART Zeroing in on ZEBs annual report, that provides an updated in...

The electric market in India is growing in a major way. According to the study of carried out by Ev Reporter during 2022, sales of electric vehicles in the Asian country exceeded one million units for the first time, touching 1,054,938, effectively tripling the sales recorded in 2021: 344,495 sales....

NEoT Green Mobility (NGM) and the Three Seas Initiative Investment Fund (3SIIF) will work together to provide capital to advance the shift towards zero-emission public transport in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The partnership aims to initially invest in zero-emission buses and the necessary inf...

Twaice gets the Tisax label for cybersecurity in the automotive industry. In fact, the battery analysis software provider announces that it has obtained Tisax certification for cybersecurity in the automotive industry. Tisax, which stands for “Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange,&...

Below, an article published on February 2023 issue of Sustainable Bus magazine, authored by featuring Claudius Jehle, CEO of volytica diagnostics GmbH (bio at the bottom) 2022 has seen the first major used electric bus transactions on European soil. The transaction of a fleet of ...

2023 begins with an important new development for the rail rolling stock fleet of SWB, the company that operates public transport in Bonn, Germany, a city of 330,000 inhabitants located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. In fact, the first of 26 ForCity Smart trams ordered in December 2019 from...

Connect Bus has ordered 42 all-electric Mellor Sigma 7 buses to be used for on-call services on Västraffik’s Flex line. The buses will be operated by Connect Bus under a contract with Vastraffik, the agency responsible for public transportation in Sweden’s Vastra Gotaland region. The ord...

Oxford Bus Company (Go-Ahead group) orders 104 battery-electric buses with Wrightbus. They’ll be part of a 159-strong zero emission fleet on Oxford’s streets from late 2023. In the same region, Stagecoach has just announced a 55-units e-bus order with Alexander Dennis. The deal is Go-Ahead’s b...