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FPT Industrial and Reefilla, an innovative Italian (and Turin-based) startup offering a mobile charging service, have launched a pilot project aimed at giving a second life to batteries from electric commercial vehicles, in particular the eBS37 model installed in the Iveco eDaily and ...

InnoTrans is introducing in 2024 a new specialized exhibition area, focusing on AI, robotics, data protection and cybersecurity. The AI Mobility Lab will expand the exhibition’s portfolio in the field of public transport. Since 1996, InnoTrans has been the international marketplace for innovat...

25 hydrogen-powered Solaris buses will hit the streets of the German city of Duisburg from 2024-2025. The operator has opted for 11 Urbino 12 hydrogen models and 14 of the articulated version, the Urbino 18 hydrogen (the last add in the manufacturer’s bus range, released in the second half of ...

An electrolysis plant will be built at ATAC’s Acilia depot in Rome. Green hydrogen will be produced for use on 30 fuel cell buses that are set to be deployed in the city (no information of tenders has been released so far, however fuel cell buses are included in the last call for tender issued...

First Bus has commenced work to transform its Norwich Roundtree Way depot into a fully electric fleet, one of the UK’s first outside of London, as it prepares to receive 70 brand new electric buses (by Wrightbus) scheduled to arrive between Autumn 2023 and March 2024.  The introduction of the ...

The Škoda Group will supply modern trolleybuses to two Czech cities: the bustling urban center of Pardubice and the historic industrial hub of Ostrava. The Transport Company of the city of Pardubice has ordered the delivery of ten Škoda 32 Tr trolleybuses in the amount of CZK 145 million. The Ostrav...

Optibus has announced an agreement with Hitouch to automate route visualization and network maps. The collaboration aims to achieve a new level of ease and speed in transforming data into sophisticated route visualizations, network maps, and state-of-the-art timetables. Designing passenger informati...

by Stefano Alfano The extension of the tramway network in Angers, with the two new B and C lines inaugurated on Saturday 8 July 2023, should not be seen as just a technical factor, but as an opportunity, proposed by the Community Angers Loire Metropole for citizens to change their habits, to the ben...

Safra made a remarkable appearance at the Paris 2022 Euro Mobility Expo, where they officially announced the launch of their hydrogen-powered HYCITY bus (ten units are going to be delivered in Dunkirk). This innovative vehicle is set to replace their Businova model. In the meanwhile, at UITP Summit ...

250 Yutong electric buses are going to be deployed in Athens and Thessaloniki. Investment? €110.8 millions. Deliveries are scheduled to begin in early 2024. And another tender for 400 e-buses is on its way to be issued, that will be followed by “a second procurement phase for an additional 650...