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BYD announces that it will deliver 100 e-bus chassis in São Paulo in early 2023. The company, with a factory in Brazil since 2015, has the capacity to produce 2,000 chassis per year. On Busworld Latinamerica it is mentioned that “The mayor of São Paulo, Ricardo Nunes, announced the incorporati...

Three quarters of all new full-size buses registered in Denmark in the first ten months of 2022 are electric buses (308 units out of 408: precisely 75%). The news come from the local specialized magazine Bussmagasinet. “The majority of these e-buses are supplied by Chinese companies. Volvo and...

by Stefano Alfano VBZ, the public transport operator for the city of Zurich, has awarded Swiss manufacturer Hess with an order for 13 articulated battery-powered trolleybuses and 13 Hess lighTram bi-articulated battery-powered trolleybuses. And there are plans for further 140 vehicles. The commissio...

Kenyan startup BasiGo has announced $6.6 million in new funding. Money that bring BasiGo’s total funding in 2022 to $10.9 Million and “will enable the company to begin commercial delivery of locally manufactured electric buses and charging infrastructure through the company’s unique Pay-As-You...

BorgWarner has entered a partnership with silicon-carbide technology expert Wolfspeed, with the first entitled to purchase up to $650 million of devices annually. Being more specific, Wolfspeed and BorgWarner announced a strategic partnership that calls for BorgWarner to invest $500 million in Wolfs...

The first electric bus with solar technology debuts on the streets of Munich. Sono Motors and Pepper Motion have launched a Mercedes-Benz Citaro equipped with the Solar Bus Kit, containing 14 semi-flexible solar modules to provide about 1.3 kW peak to the 24-module 1.3 kW peak to the 24-volt system....

At COP27 the United States signed the Global Memorandum of Understanding (Global MOU) on Zero-Emission Medium-and Heavy-Duty Vehicles, an international agreement supporting a path to 100% new zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales by 2040 with a targeted floor of...

Nobina has ordered four new Sigma 7 all-electric buses from Mellor, for the first time. Deliveries are being fulfilled in November through Mellor’s Swedish distributor partner, BK Invest. The Mellor / BK Invest partnership has delivered Mellor products in the region for over five years. Besides laun...

Cummins and Tata Motors, the largest commercial vehicle manufacturer in India, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to “collaborate on the design and development of low and zero-emission propulsion technology solutions for commercial vehicles in India, including hydrogen-powered internal...

Hyundai Motor Company acts as official sponsor of FIFA World Cup 2022 and announces it is providing 616 fleet vehicles to FIFA World Cup 2022. Of that fleet, there will be 446 passenger vehicles, with just over half (226 units) being hybrid electric (HEV) and battery electric (BEV) models. Hyundai w...