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European Commission officials would be developing a plan to provide electric buses to Latin American countries in exchange for access to lithium supplies. The news is reported on Bloomberg, that quotes “people familiar with the plan”. This plan would be part of the EU’s broader strategy called...

START Romagna has launched a tender for the purchase of electric buses headed to Rimini. The tender is worth EUR 106.8 million and a deadline of 6 September 2023. The news is reported on the Italian media Autobusweb, belonging to the same publisher as Sustainable Bus. They will not be the first elec...

Nicoletta Gennaro, Group Head of Marketing at Ascendal, has been honoured as the 2023 Women in Mobility Champion at the MOVE Conference. The award ceremony took place on June 22nd at the ExCel London. Nicoletta Gennaro awarded 2023 Women in Mobility Champion at the MOVE “Nicoletta Gennaro&#821...

Blue Bird will premiere its next-generation Vision electric school bus at STN Expo West, a leading student transportation industry and technology event in North America. The new vehicle will be on display for the first time from July 14-19, 2023 in Reno, Nevada. The Blue Bird Vision v...

Jennifer Rumsey has been elected Chair of Cummins Board of Directors, effective August 1, 2023. She succeeds Tom Linebarger, who is retiring from both of his Cummins positions as Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board, effective July 31, 2023. Jennifer Rumsey, already President and C...

Konvekta has presented a “refrigerant charge balancing“ as the latest module of the CO2 heat pump for electric buses (adopted by 60% of German e-buses). This technology improves once more efficiency and range. With the new “refrigerant charge balancing“ module, the refrigerant charge lev...

500 gangways in six years. The Hübner Group has successfully completed gangway renovations for Deutsche Bahn’s ICE 3 trains of the 403 and 406 series. For DB, Hübner met high expectations for the refurbishment of train gangway systems. «The aim of our refurbishment strategy is to facilitate th...

Inductive charging is one of the challenges of the energy and electric transition revolution. In a nutshell: the ability for electric vehicles (buses, trucks and vans) to charge the battery while on the road, thanks to a wireless induction charging system integrated to the roadbed. One pioneering pr...

There has been much talk in recent weeks about the decision of the municipality of Bologna, that aims to become the first major 30 km/h city in Italy, with the transformation expected to be completed by 2024. The new traffic plan, called Bologna Città 30, seeks to create calmer, safer, and...

Two full electric buses from Rampini, 8-meter Eltron model, were delivered to the city of Marburg (Germany) last Tuesday, 11 July. A handover that follows the delivery in 2021 of two E80s, models that initiated the city’s decarbonisation strategy. It’s the second delivery for the new Ram...