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As, based on local press coverage, we have anticipated a few days ago, the Slovakian carrier Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB) has opted for four hydrogen buses to be manufactured and delivered by Solaris. This is the first order placed under a framework agreement. In the long run, up to 40 Solaris U...

Over ten million inhabitants and, soon, one thousand electric buses: one for every ten thousand citizens. This is the plan to fight pollution in Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta,, which – as is well known – has very high concentrations of fine particulate matter and low air quality. As...

Ebusco announces it has signed a contract with Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona (AMB) in Spain for 21 Ebusco 2.2 12-meter buses and related chargers, to be delivered in the second quarter of 2023. It’s their first contract in Spain (and bring the number of countries covered to nine). The Dutch ...

Keolis is launching a recruiting campaign in France in order to fill 1,000 open positions worldwide. Focus on drivers and maintainers. The campaign will last until end of 2022. “These jobs are open to all candidates, both junior and experienced, with or without qualifications. They are also op...

On July 21 Yutong held a release conference for its new battery electric coach Yutong T13E and battery safety technology YESS in Santiago, the capital of Chile. A country that is leading e-bus deployment in Latin America: of the 2,162 battery-powered electric buses counted in the region, two cities ...

Strategic investment company SKion has acquired a 20% stake in battery supplier BMZ Group. “BMZ is pleased to win SKion as an investor and thus to further expand its positioning in the field of important future topics around the braking of climate change via energy and transport transition&#82...

The Supervisory Board of MAN Truck & Bus SE has appointed Stefan Gramse to the Executive Board. As of August 1, 2022, he will assume responsibility for Procurement, for which CEO Alexander Vlaskamp had temporarily held dual responsibility and which Stefan Gramse has already been operationally ma...

MAN is aiming for a greenhouse gas neutral balance sheet by 2050 at the latest – net zero emissions throughout the entire value creation chain. The decarbonisation of the fleet plays a central role in the company’s sustainability strategy: the group stresses that “A massive 97.4 percent of all...

MAN Truck & Bus achieved sales of around EUR 5.0 billion in the first half of 2022, “which, as expected, was noticeably below the previous year’s level”, the group says. New vehicle sales of a total of almost 35,000 trucks, vans and buses were down 26 percent compared to the fi...

Lionel Vialat has been appointed Plant Manager of the Switch Mobility factory in Valladolid. In March this year Switch Mobility held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the upcoming creation of its new advanced manufacturing facility in Valladolid, Spain. The newly launched Switch Mobility e1 electric...