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“In 2030 we will not sell any combustion engine city bus in Europe. Euro 7 standards put OEMs in a difficult situation: it’s not possible to develop Euro 7 for the whole range, investments for the Class I segment would never been recouped. Looking at the evolution of the city bus market ...

Renault Master City Bus H2-TECH. This is the name of the hydrogen-powered urban minibuses realized by Renault Group’s subsidiary PVI, specialist in development and production of industrial vehicles with electric, hybrid, hydrogen or compressed natural gas (CNG) powertrains. The vehicles w...

Renée Amilcar, the General Manager of Transit Services at OC Transpo, City of Ottawa, has been elected as the new President of the International Association of Public Transport (UITP). The official announcement came during the association’s General Assembly held today 4th June 2023, marking th...

BorgWarner has expanded its e-mobility business after acquiring the German battery systems manufacturer Akasol. Now the group’s portfolio includes battery systems, charging solutions, drivetrains, motors, inverters, and eFans. BorgWarner main emphasis in commercial vehicles is on battery syste...

Volytica diagnostics and CarMedialab (INIT Group) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at further developing the condition monitoring of electric bus batteries. The collaboration comes ahead of the UITP Summit in Barcelona, taking place from 4th to 7th June 2023 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via, w...

By the end of 2023, public transport in Oslo will be virtually emission-free. Buses, subways, trams and boats will be powered by electricity. Oslo is set to reach its goal of emission-free public transport five years earlier than planned. This is a result of the way Ruter, as a public transport auth...

In the first full month of the nationwide Deutschland-Ticket, around 10 million customers took advantage of the offer (7 million subscriptions were sold in the first 10 days after it became valid: Deutsche Bahn website went crashed). Half of them, approximately 5 million passengers, switched from ex...

Cutric, Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium, has announced a $1.1 million investment to plan the electrification of the city of Brampton’s transportation system. The funding put in will support Brampton Transit in launching zero-emission buses, toward a full fleet of ze...

Austrian and Viennese transport company Wiener Linien will not use Solaris hydrogen fuel cell buses: the contract to supply 10 FCEV from the Polish manufacturer has been severed.Reporting the news is the Hungarian specialized website Magyarbusz. The reason for this rupture? According to what those d...

Handshake on the Franco-Spanish ace between Bluebus and Indcar, which will become exclusive distributor of the Bluebus 6 m minibus in Spain and Italy. For its part, Indcar will bring its knowledge of the two markets, its technical expertise and its mastery of the marketing and maintenance of vehicle...