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From next week Iveco Bus (through sister company FPT and partner Microvast) will start producing bus batteries in Turin, while from April 2023 next-generation bus production will begin at a new plant in Foggia, Italy. The announcement was made this morning at the Next Mobility Exhibition, as reporte...

Loop Energy, a designer and manufacturer of hydrogen fuel cells for commercial mobility, joins Italian bus manufacturer Rampini in unveiling its first hydrogen-electric bus, the Hydron, at the Next Mobility Exhibition in Milan, Italy, today. Rampini is the third Loop Energy customer to launch a fuel...

Quantron is going to implement its business model in the U.S., along with plans to develop new commercial vehicle designs with BEV and FCEV powertrains. Several inquiries from US fleet operators about these new technologies have supported the decision to expand into North America, German company say...

New markets in the spotlight, a product with lots of technical innovations, a straight focus on electrification of public transport. Alex De Jong, Business Manager Public Transport at VDL Bus & Coach, answers some questions from Sustainable Bus in the framework of the launch of the Citea New Gen...

Thirty-three Skoda trolleybuses, model 27Tr, for transport in the Czech city of Ústí nad Labem: the order for the modern low-floor vehicles, which is based on a previous cooperation with the transport company, will exceed CZK 650 million, about twenty-six million euros. Compared to the vehicles alre...

The Routing Company announced it has been named a winner of Metro Magazine’s Innovative Solutions Award for 2022. METRO announced the winners just prior to the American Public Transportation Association’s TRANSform Conference beginning in Seattle, Washington. The Innovative Solutions Awards occur an...

The Munich-based solar mobility OEM Sono Motors announces it is launching a project to test the recently presented Solar Bus Kit in real-life conditions in the northern hemisphere. The pilot involves manufacturer Scania and Swedish public transport authority LLT. This project is a par...

Anne Le Guennec has been appointed to the Keolis Supervisory Board on 29 September 2022. Anne Le Guennec is the chief executive of Veolia’s Recycling & Recovery business unit for France. Keolis has launched this summer a recruiting campaign in France in order to fill 1,000 open positions worldwi...

Ballard Power Systems is planning to build manufacturing facility and R&D center in Shanghai, China. This is part of a strategy, called ‘local for local’, according to which the Canadian fuel cell specialist aims to deepen its global manufacturing footprint in Europe, the United States and ...

ACTIA is launching a new intelligent infotainment and on-board management system called ACTiVi. Connected to a display, this ECU centralises and manages all vehicle functions. ACTIA says it has designed this new generation CPU in response to the massive influx of multimedia systems in passenger tran...